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Slavery And African American Slavery Outline
CHAPTER 4
SLAVERY AND EMPIRE, 1441–1770

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Chapter Outline
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES African Slaves Build Their Own Community in Coastal Georgia
THE BEGINNINGS OF AFRICAN SLAVERY Sugar and Slavery West Africans
THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE The Demography of the Slave Trade Slavers of All Nations The Shock of Enslavement The Middle Passage Arrival in the New World Political and Economic Effects on Africa
THE DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICAN SLAVE SOCIETIES Slavery Comes to North America The Tobacco Colonies The Lower South Slavery in the Spanish Colonies French Louisiana Slavery in the North
AFRICAN TO AFRICAN AMERICAN The Daily Life of Slaves Families and Communities
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Prior to 1500 slavery was rarely found in Europe. Why did Europeans suddenly start trying to get slaves? How did the changing economy affect the slave trade?
3. The text refers to the “shock of enslavement.” Why was this so great? How did slaves respond to it?

4. How did slavery vary in different places? Compare slavery in the Chesapeake with slavery in the Lower South, North, New Spain, New France.

5. The authors refer to the emergence of African American culture. What do they mean by this? By what process did this take place?

6. What was the nature of the conflict between the English and French empires? How did slavery play into this? What other factors led to the nearly century of warfare between the two nations?

7. How would you characterize the white place in slave societies? Were all whites members of the elite class?

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How did African slaves attempt to preserve African culture in America?
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5. How did slavery fuel the economic development of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

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