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Week 3: Colonial slavery: Challenge and response

Gobbets
  • George Whitefield, Three letters from the Reverend Mr. G. Whitefield
  • Alexander Garden, Six letters to the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield
    • Other Sources
    • Tailfer, Patrick. (Charles-Town, 1741)
    • (London, 1743).
    • . (London, 1742)
    • Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730. (Boston, 1700)
    Questions

    Why did some people oppose the use of slaves? How widespread was anti-slavery sentiment? Why did others support slavery?

    Core Reading
    • Wood, Betty, Slavery in colonial Georgia (7 copies in the library)

    Further reading
    • Gray, Ralph & Wood, Betty, 'The transformation from indentured to involuntary servitude in colonial Georgia', Explorations in Economic History, XIII, (1976), 353-370.

    • Knee, Stuart, 'The Quaker petition of 1790, a challenge to democracy in early America' S&A 6 (1985), 151-159
    • Smith, Julia Floyd, Slavery and rice culture in low country Georgia, 1750-1860.
    • Davis, Harold E., The fledgling province: social and cultural life in colonial Georgia, 1733-1776.

    • Hall, Gwendolyn, Africans in Colonial Louisiana
    • Morgan, Philip, Slave Counterpoint
    • Sobel, Mechal, The world they made together
    • McColten, Robert, Slavery and Jefferson's Virginia
    • Kulikoff, Alan, Tobacco & slaves: the development of Southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800.

    • Essah, Patience, A house divided: slavery and emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865

    • Greene, Jack, Imperatives, behaviour, and identities ch 3
    • Parker, Anthony, Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia
    • Loewald, Klaus G., Staricka, Beverly, & Taylor, Paul S., "Johann Martin Bolzius Answers A Questionnaire On Carolina And Georgia", WMQ, & .
    • Dinah Mayo-Bobee S&A (Sept 2009)
    • Parent Jr, Anthony S., Foul Means: The formation of a slave society in Virginia, 1660-1740

    • Hatfield, April Lee, Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial relations in the 17thC

    • Hoffer, Peter C., The Great New York conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime & Colonial Law

      Foote, Thelma, Black and White Manhattan: The history of racial formation in colonial New York City

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