The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Objective
I can describe the causes, effects, and consequences of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Key concepts
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In the mercantile system, colonies provided raw materials to the “mother” country, which then exported finished goods for profit.
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The arrival of the “20 and odd Negroes” in 1619 at Point Comfort, Virginia, is often considered the beginning of chattel slavery in the United States.
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The Virginia General Assembly adopted the rule of “partus sequitur ventrem” in 1662, which determined a child's slave or free status based on the mother's race.
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Practice
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What was the primary economic goal of mercantilism, as it relates to the transatlantic slave trade?
Before the widespread adoption of African slavery, what other forms of labor did European colonists attempt to use?
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“Describe one cause and one effect of the legal codification of slavery in the American colonies during the mid-17th century.”
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