Monday, February 17, 2014

Slavery in the Southern Colonies

According to ushistory.org, "Virginia would become the first British colony to legally establish slavery in 1661. Maryland and the Carolinas were soon to follow. The only Southern colony to resist the onset of slavery was Georgia, created as an Enlightened experiment. Seventeen years after its formation, Georgia too succumbed to the pressures of its own citizens and repealed the ban on African slavery. Laws soon passed in these areas that condemned all children of African slaves to lifetimes in chains." In 1663 A Virginia courts decided that a child born to a slave mother is also a slave.  




When you look at this picture, what do you think life was like for the slaves?  How do you think the slave owners felt about the slaves?  How do you feel about slavery? 
Please include your class code with your response.