What You Have to Read with Care to Understand How History Changes

Your Possible Topics about Servitude (Question 1 on the Possible Essays for Unit 1)

Resources for Self-testing

Background about the Term English Servant (Indentured Servant)

Forms of Servitude Shown in a Table So You Can Compare Them

What You Have to Read for Each Column in the Table

What You Have to Read for Each Column in the Table – If You Prefer to See Page Numbers

 

Your Possible Topics about Servitude

You must read the textbook on these periods and use it as your only source.

 

The possible topics are:

1.     Servitude in English Colonies in South – Early 1600s: What varied things happened to Africans sold in early Virginia?

2.     Slavery in English Colonies in South – Late 1600s: How did laws in the 1660s change what happened to Africans and African Americans in Maryland and Virginia?
Tip:
African Americans are people of African descent born in the English colonies on the Atlantic seacoast.

3.     Indenture– Pre-1676 in South (Before Bacon’s Rebellion): How did availability of land at the end of their service change for English servants from early settlement to the 1660s?
Tip:
Stop reading “The War in the Chesapeake” about 1670.
Note: In the textbook, the phrase used for indentured servants in some locations is English servants—that is, from England..

4.     Indenture– Post-1676 in South (After Bacon’s Rebellion)
Tip: Start
reading “The War in the Chesapeake” about 1670. The investigation makes some powerful statements at the end of that section. Notice carefully.

Resources for Self-testing

Click here for why you want to self-test.

 

The table on what happens with different forms of servitude in the South:

 

The content and the quotations on Slavery in Africa are from the 3rd edition. To see that page, click here. This link also shows an example of how I label in the margins any words I have to do something with—including explain the content to another person. I was taught to do this kind of marking years ago by a community college professor. Although I marked this page very quickly, it is shows two basic principles of any information where you have to do something:

1) Read once, but mark the facts with labels so you can:

2) When you use your marked text, you not only save time but also begin to understand it better and catch your own mistakes.

Background about the Term English Servant (Indentured Servant)

In the textbook, the phrase used for indentured servants in some locations is English servants. What’s the word indentured mean with the word servant? Merriam Webster Online explains it is “a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance.”  To sign a document indicates the signer is a free person who agrees to the terms of the indenture. What’s an indenture? “to divide (a document) so as to produce sections with irregular edges that can be matched for authentication.” Think of it this way: when you tear paper, the ragged edge is unique.

 


 

Forms of Servitude Shown in a Table So You Can Compare Them

In the table, the content and the quotations on Slavery in Africa are from the 3rd edition, which has a few more details. To see the page, click here.


 

What You Have to Read for Each Column in the Table

The columns below are the same columns you see above. This time they contain the Chapter # and the name of the heading of the section you read within that chapter

 

Trait

Servitude with Feudalism (Serfdom)

Slavery in Africa   

Slavery in Spanish Colonies

Servitude in Eng. Colonies in South–Early 1600s

Indenture–Pre-1676 in South

Slavery in Eng. Colonies in South–Late 1600s

Indenture–Post-1676 in South  

 

What You Must Read

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For the content for this column, you read this section of Chapter 1:

“The Atlantic Slave Trade Begins.”

For the content for this column, you read this section of Chapter 1:

“Forced Labor Systems.”

For the content for this column, you read this section of Chapter 2:

“Africans in Early Virginia.”

 

For the meaning of the word servant, see its use in Chapter 2: “Tobacco Boom.”

For the content for this column, you read this section of Chapter 2:

“Tobacco Boom” and “The Colony Expands” (See English servants.)

 

You also read Chapter 3: “War in the Chesapeake”—but only for content about the years before about 1660.

For the content for this column, you read this section of Chapter 3:

“Systems of Slavery in North America.” (Focus on the content at the beginning of this section. Also, do not read about slavery outside of the South.)

For the content for this column, you read this section of Chapter 3:

“War in the Chesapeake”—but only for content about the years after about 1660.

 

What You Have to Read for Each Column in the Table – If You Prefer to See Page Numbers

This link provides the page numbers where you can find these headings in the 3rd and 4th paperback editions.

 

If you need help finding the pages in other editions, just ask.

 

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