A large-scale slave trade with English privateers …
Years: 1684 - 1827
A large-scale slave trade with English privateers has begun.
The life expectancy of slaves is much higher in North America than further south, because of less disease and better food and treatment, leading to a rapid increase in the numbers of slaves.
Colonial society is largely divided over the religious and moral implications of slavery and colonies pass acts for and against the practice, but by the turn of the eighteenth century, enslaved Africans are replacing indentured servants for cash crop labor, especially in southern regions.
The life expectancy of slaves is much higher in North America than further south, because of less disease and better food and treatment, leading to a rapid increase in the numbers of slaves.
Colonial society is largely divided over the religious and moral implications of slavery and colonies pass acts for and against the practice, but by the turn of the eighteenth century, enslaved Africans are replacing indentured servants for cash crop labor, especially in southern regions.
Groups
- English people
- Protestantism
- Ulster Scots people (Scots-Irish)
- Newfoundland (English Colony)
- Plymouth Council for New England
- Virginia (English Crown Colony)
- Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called the Massachusetts Bay Company, for its founding institution)
- Maryland, Province of (English Colony)
- New Sweden (Swedish Colony)
- New Haven Colony (English)
- New England Confederation (United Colonies of New England)
- Rhode Island (English Colony)
- England, Commonwealth of
- England, (Stewart, Restored) Kingdom of
- Connecticut (English Crown Colony)
- Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, English Crown Colony of
- Carolina, Province of (English Colony)
- New York, Province of (English Colony)
- Delaware Bay, Lower Counties on the (English Colony)
- New Jersey (English Colony)
- New Hampshire (English Crown Colony)
- Virginia (English Crown Colony)
