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Jun 1, 1504
The Middle Passage
The start of the Middle Passage was the stage were tons of people from Africa was shipped to the New World as a part of the Atlantic slave trade. The ships moved from Europe to African markets with manufactured good which were later traded for kidnapped or purchased Africans. They were transpoted across the Atlantic as slaves, they were then traded or sold for raw materials that could go back to Europe and complete the voyage. -
Jan 1, 1526
After the colonial period
By the end of the colonial period there were 50,000 African Americans who lived in the northern colonies and 400,000 who lived in the southern colonies. -
What is Slavery?
Slavery is being forced to work without pay. -
Seven Years' War
War between France and Britain that began in North America in 1754, spread to Europe in 1756, and forced France to withdraw from North America in 1763. -
Freedom Fever
Freedom fever was a rival break out where slaves fought for freedom. A lot of European and Africans were killed. Some people were not inspired by freedom fever because they did not want to die. -
Eugenics
Eugenics is the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. -
The Quakers
The Quakers were members of the English pietist society of friends. The Quakers believed in non-voilence and a divine spirit within all humans. they did not support slavery. -
Massavana
The slave ship that Massavana was trasported on that latter led a revolt on was classed Meermin. -
Boston Masacre
1770 event in which British troops fired into an angry crowd, killing five Bostonians. -
The difference in slave lfe.
Slave life was different in the middle colonies vs. the north because the middle colonies had more African Americans and were more threatening. -
After the revolutionary war
After the revolutionary war everyone was considered Americans or some sort of American. Slaves or blacks were considered as African American, because people were now treated somewhat equal. -
Sugar Act
Act of 1764 designed to raise revenuefor the British government that levied duties on sugar.
