Slavery in Colonial America

True or False: Slavery began with indentured servants.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What were the laws called that first gave legal rights to slave owners?

• Slave Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Master Codes

• Plantation Codes

How long would one set of slave clothes be expected to last?

• 6 months

• 5 years

• A lifetime

• 1 year

TRUE OR FALSE: By the middle of the 1700's about 75% of the population in the southern colonies were slaves.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Slavery in the southern colonies continued until...

• 1840

• after the Civil War

• all of the slaves escaped

• All of the above

What is the main reason people were enslaved in the American colonies?

In addition to Africans, these people were also enslaved

• Indigenous Americans

• Indentured

• Debtors

• slave codes

People who were sold as soon as they could work

Laws outlining the rights of slave owners and the enslaved

• Indigenous Americans

• Indentured

• Debtors

• slave codes

Many enslaved people worked in these type of fields