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    • [DOC File]Slavery in the American Colonies

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      1619-1776. I. Slavery's Early Presence . A. First African-Americans that arrived in Jamestown in 1619 were brought as servants, not slaves. B. Very small numbers of slaves in the Southern colonies in the early years. By 1650, only 300 blacks lived in Virginia

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    • [DOC File]1619

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      1619. August 20. Twenty Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, aboard a Dutch ship. They were the first blacks to be forcibly settled as involuntary laborers in the North American British Colonies. 1641 Massachusetts was the first colony to legalize slavery by statute.

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    • [DOC File]Mr. Streit's Hawthorne Website

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      Laws soon passed in these areas that condemned all children of African slaves to lifetimes in chains. Howard Pyle. The first African Americans in the New World arrived at Jamestown on a Dutch ship in 1619. No northern or middle colony was without its slaves. From Puritan Massachusetts to Quaker Pennsylvania, Africans lived in .

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    • [DOCX File]Home - Fredericksburg City Schools

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      In 1619, Africans arrived in Jamestown against their will. Portuguese sailors captured African men and women from what is present-day Angola. The status of these early African men and women as either servants or slaves in Virginia is unknown. The arrival of the Africans made it possible to expand the tobacco economy.

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    • [DOC File]1 - Houston Independent School District

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      African slaves John Rolfe The early years of the Jamestown colony were very difficult for the colonists. Mostly single men ("gentlemen" unaccustomed to labor) who came to the colony hoping to strike it rich by digging for gold and precious metals, the Jamestown colonists were not prepared to farm and grow food to sustain themselves.

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    • [DOCX File]What were the reasons why the Jamestown settlers came to ...

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      identifying the importance of the General Assembly (1619) as the first representative legislative body in English America. identifying the importance of the arrival of Africans and women to the Jamestown settlement. describing the hardships faced by settlers at Jamestown and the changes that took place to …

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    • [DOC File]a brief history of jamestown

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      tobacco cultivation required large amounts of land and labor and stimulated the rapid growth of the virginia colony. In 1619 african slaves were brought to virginia to work in the tobacco fields. this began the slave trade in north america which did not end until abraham lincoln emancipated the slaves in1863. [add 12 commas]

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    • [DOCX File]Mr. Desjarlais

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      The first African Americans in the English colonies arrived in 1619 at Jamestown. Originally, most did not come as slaves but rather as indentured servants. As such, they attained their freedom after a set number of years, owned land, and some even became masters of indentured servants and/or slaves …

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    • [DOC File]Memo : Slavery in the USA

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      : Importation of slaves is outlawed by Congress but ships continue bringing slaves from Africa to the US. 1849: Abraham Lincoln proposes legislation to free and compensate slaves in the District of Columbia. It fails. 1859: The last ship carrying African slaves to the USA arrives in Mobile, Alabama. 1861: Civil war breaks out. 1865: Civil War ends.

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    • Slavery in the American Colonies

      A. Dutch brought first African slaves to Virginia in 1619. 1. Increased demand for labor. 2. Slaves were more economical than paid labor. 3. Bacon's Rebellion (1676) a. Led by former indentured servants. b. Burned Jamestown in protest. B. Triangular trade. 1. Raw materials and rum to West Africa. 2. Slaves from Africa to the Caribbean. 3.

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