READ:
Global Passages: (p.54, textbook) “Angela’s Ordeal, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Creation of African North American Communities.
“Slavery Takes Root in Colonial Virginia”
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3576
“Slavery and the Law in Virginia”
https://www.history.org/history/teaching/slavelaw.cfm
ASSIGNMENT: In a clear, concise, and well-constructed five to seven (5-7) paragraph essay please respond to the following:
Discuss the beginnings of slavery in Virginia. What economic, social, and cultural opportunities did Africans enjoy in the early 1600s? And, in particular, how was “law” used to eventually strip Africans of such opportunities and rights in Virginia? What might have been the status of race relations had early African-Americans and African slaves not been stripped of such opportunity?
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