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. A true and historical narrative of the colony of Georgia in America (Charles-Town, 1741)
• A brief account of the causes that have retarded the progress of the colony of Georgia, in America (London, 1743).
• A state of the province of Georgia, attested upon oath in the court of Savannah, November 10, 1740. (London, 1742)
• Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730. The selling of Joseph a memorial. (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)

• Jackson, Harvey, 'The Darien Anti-Slavery Petition of 1739' WMQ (1977)

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

• Taylor, Paul S., 'Colonizing Georgia, 1732-1752: a statistical note', WMQ, XXII, (1965), 119-127.

• 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

• Gary Nash, 'Slaves and slaveowners in colonial Philadelphia' WMQ (1973)
• Russel Menard, 'The Maryland slave population, 1658-1730' WMQ (1975)
• Philip Morgan & Michael Micols, 'Slaves in Piedmont Virginia, 1720-1790' WMQ (1989) 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, XIV, (1957), 218-261 & XV, (1958), 228-252.
• Dinah Mayo-Bobee Servile Discontents: Slavery and Resistance in Colonial New Hampshire, 1645–1785 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