Instructions
Locate the webpage Acts of the Virginia Commonwealth: Slavery and the Making of America: The Slave Experience. Read the information on this page. Feel free also to locate and incorporate additional scholarly sources to respond to this case study.
Link to Articles: https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/living/history.html
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/legal/docs1.html
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/living/docs1.html
Construct the case study by responding to the following prompts:
- Describe in what ways the practice of slavery was different between Africans and Europeans?
- Explain how the length of service of slaves (servants being brought into the colony without indentures or covenants) change between 1642 and 1705?
- How was the status of children born to slaves by white men determined?
- Describe in what ways were slaves treated similarly to property (regarding the right of possession, damage to property, etc.)?
- As the author of the Declaration of Independence, analyze Jefferson’s viewpoint of slavery and abolition of slavery.
Sample Solution
