Hist1301 Week 02

Servitude, Slavery, and the

Growth of the

Southern Colonies

1620–1760

The Development of the

Southern Colonies

Ira Berlin on Slave Societies

The Southern Colonies in Context

The Demand for Labor: Servitude in the Chesapeake

Power and Society in the Chesapeake: 1650s–1670s   

Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676: A Turning Point

The Making of Southern Slave Societies

From Servitude to Slavery in the Chesapeake

The Lower South

The Growth of Slavery in the Carolinas and Georgia

African American Culture in the South

Ira Berlin on Slave Culture

The First African American Generation

Conditions of Work and Kinship

Slave Resistance and Rebellion

Prosperity, Inequality, and Shifting Ideas in Slave

Societies

Hierarchy and Society

Deference and Conflict

The Challenge of the Great Awakening