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Informationen zum Autor The late Oscar Reiss was a retired physician. He lived in San Diego, California. Klappentext By the time of the American Revolution, blacks made up 20 percent of the colonial population. Early in colonial history, many blacks who came to America were indentured servants who served out their contracts and then settled in the colonies as free men. Over time, however, more and more blacks arrived as slaves, and the position of blacks in colonial society suffered precipitous decline. This book discusses the lives of blacks, both slave and free, as they struggled to make homes for themselves among the white European settlers in the New World. The author thoroughly examines colonial slavery and the laws supporting it (as early as 1686, for example, New Jersey had laws demanding the return of fugitive slaves) as well as the emancipation movement, active from the beginning of the slave trade. Other topics include blacks and the practice of Christianity in the colonies, and the service of blacks in the Revolution. Zusammenfassung Early in colonial history! many blacks who came to America were indentured servants who served out their contracts and then settled in the colonies as free men. This book discusses the lives of blacks! both slave and free! as they struggled to make homes for themselves among the white European settlers in the New World. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsPreface 1 The Concept of Slavery 2 African Roots 3 The Slave Trade 4 The Slave's Life in Colonial America 5 Africans in New England 6 Africans in the Middle Atlantic Colonies 7 Africans in the South 8 The Freedmen 9 Colonization 10 Opposition to Slavery in Colonial America 11 Miscegenation 12 Slave Rebellion and Black Codes 13 Blacks and Christianity 14 Blacks in War Notes Index
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The late Oscar Reiss was a retired physician. He lived in San Diego, California.
