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Feb 10, 1518
Scope of the Slave Trade
The total slave trade to islands in the Caribbean, North & South America is estimated to have involved 12 million Africans about 600,000 African slaves were imported into the U.S., or 5% of the 12 million slaves brought across from Africa.
Life expectancy was much higher in the U.S. -
Feb 11, 1518
Disease and Indigenous Population Loss
The European lifestyle included a long history of sharing close quarters with domesticated animals, which had resulted in epidemic diseases unknown in the americas, epidemics swept the americas subsequent to European contact, killing between 10 million and 100 million people, up to 95% of the indigenous population of the americas. -
Feb 10, 1537
The Slavery Question
In 1537, the papacy definitively recognized that Native Americans possessed souls.. Some claimed that a native who had rebelled and then been captured could be enslaved nonetheless. Each took opposing positions to justify enslavement and nothing was resolved. -
Feb 10, 1537
Forced Immigration and Enslavement
Slavery existed in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans.The Spanish continued this with the enslavement of local aborigines in the Caribbean, they were often replaced by Africans imported through a large commercial slave trade. -
Indentured Servants
The beginning of VA's settlements in 1587 until the 1680s, the main source of labor and a large portion of the immigrants were indentured servants looking for new life in the overseas colonies. During the 17th century, indentured servants constituted 75% of all European immigrants to the Chesapeake region. -
Indentured Servant (cont.)
American landowners were in need of laborers and were willing to pay for a laborer’s passage to America if they served them for several years.
By selling passage for 5 to 7 years worth of work they could then start out on their own in America. -
Atlactic Slave Trade
Slaves were trade to south america,and north america from africa and europe. -
The Search of Riches
Inspired by the Spanish riches from colonies founded upon the conquest of the Aztecs, Incas, and other large Native American populations in the 16th century. -
Virginia Colonies
It took strong leaders, like John Smith, to convince the colonists of Jamestown that searching for gold was not taking care of their immediate needs for food and shelter and the biblical principle. The extremely high mortalityrate was quite distressing and cause for despair among the colonists. -
Religious Immigration
Roman Catholics were the first major religious group to immigrate to the New World.English and Dutch colonies, tended to be more religiously diverse. -
Migration to North America
Strong believer in the notion of rule by divine right, Charles I, King of England and Scotland. Waves of repression led to the migration of about 20,000 Puritans to New England between 1629 and 1642. -
Atlantic Slave Trade
Captured Africans were sold to European slave traders on the West African coast,
africans were taken in ship, under inhuman conditions, for the voyage across the Atlantic to the New World.
