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Slavery in the States

Slavery in the States. Northern States. Worked as Artisans Blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, tanners House servants Shipping yard Gave wages to owners Some could buy freedom. Northern States . States to Abolish Slavery 1775 Pennsylvania 1777 Vermont 1783 Massachusetts

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Slavery in the States

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  1. Slavery in the States

  2. Northern States • Worked as • Artisans • Blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, tanners • House servants • Shipping yard • Gave wages to owners • Some could buy freedom

  3. Northern States States to Abolish Slavery • 1775 Pennsylvania • 1777 Vermont • 1783 Massachusetts • 1783 New Hampshire (gradual) • 1784 Connecticut (gradual) • 1799 New York (gradual) • 1804 New Jersey (gradual)

  4. Middle States • First slaves brought to Jamestown, VA • 1619 • Worked more as indentured servants • Both free and enslaved blacks • Bacon’s Rebellion • Caused harsher slave laws

  5. Middle States • 1667 Virginia Slave law • All children born to a slave mother they are a slave • 1669 Virginia Slave law • Masters can use any violent mean towards a slave who resists • Tobacco • Task labor

  6. Southern States • Conditions were harshest in the South • Gang labor • Rice and Indigo were grown in the South • Cotton became King when the cotton gin was invented • Almost every Southern state’s economy was based on slave labor

  7. http://www.history.com/videos/origins-of-slavery • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0cqvR9fXG4

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