Louis Vega
Social Studies
8th Grade
Chapter 3
: Section 2
Slavery and the Economy
the
Origins
indentured servants vs. forced labor
Indians not willing to work/Gave up land and
moved westward
Disease and war/Need for labor
Africans didn’t speak English/More expensive
Later Indentured Servants became farmers and
competed
Poor didn’t go over to south, tobacco prices
fell
From Port//Span/Dutch
Slave life
“peculiar institution”/common in
history/household
valuable and expensive
treatment/no rights/land/prop/vote/family
Middle passage/Atlantic
Public display
Runaways/hope/strength/Revolts/skill
Southern Ag
need of consumer goods/cash crops
advantage in climate
tobacco prices fell/small farmers out of
business
moved westward/flight/replaced by Slaves
tidewaters/Malaria/imunity?
Forestry
Naval stores masts/tar and pitch for
watertightness
N. Products
fur trade/frontier activity/conflict with
French and Indians
fishing in the north
“yankee ingenuity”/competion
the Triangle Trade
profitable
English didn’t need/Used to advantage
Large fortunes
Merchants vs. planters