Slavery in colonies

PEER REVIEW

by : Ayniah Brianna Milton

Slavery in colonies

Dealing with slavery it formed many corner stones for the British empire during the 18th century. Every single colony you could think of had they own slaves. Slavery was more than a labor system it was a trade it was a business .

​The 17th and the 18th centuries saw this specific expansion as slavery. The American colonies that were from both South Carolina and Boston. Gross overreactions and further constraints on enslaved people's activities.

In this topic, American colonies accelerated in the second half of the British empire back in the 17th Century. In 1660 charles created the Royal African Company .

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Slavery in the British Empire

​What was Royal African Company

The Royal African Company was a company that traded enslaved black people and black people goods.

Both the queen and king enjoyed the monopoly of trading and transporting black people to these english colonies at that time.

Multiple Choice

Guess how many slaves they brought captive?

• 125,000

• 2,0000

• 50,000

• 345,0000

​They brought 125,000 slaves' captive and that is just on the african coast that is not counting the other places.

Multiple Choice

How many people do you think died in the middle passage?

• 10 percent

• 20 percent

• 40 percent

• 80 percent

​The royal African company which I like to call a trade ended in 1689. After that ended many English merchants engaged in the slave trade. Which greatly increased the number of enslaved people then it was at first. Africans or slaves that survived usually got transported to west indies which was often in Barbados. Some was transported to the mainland English colonies on many company ships.

Multiple Choice

What is the Stono rebellion ?

• I don't know

• Enslaved people in colonies

• freed slaves

• slave trade

Stono Rebellion

The Stono Rebellion was the numbers of enslaved people going up in Colonies. The Stono Rebellion took place in South Carolina in September of 1739. But in the wake of this Stono Rebellion South Carolina had passed a new slave code in 1740.

Negro Act of 1740

This act imposed new limits on enslaved people behaviors. this code taught them how to write , grow their own food, and travel free .

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