Exam 3: Black People in Colonial North America

What forms of labor did the British initially use in North America? Why did they begin to turn to African sources?

Examine the photograph of a slave code book.What detail makes it appear to be an official government document from the 1600s?

Which African instrument survived to be used by slaves on American plantations?

The relationships between black people and American Indians during colonial times were simplistic.

Why did health conditions vary the historical experience of black slave women across the British colonies?

In Texas,Spanish settlers created economic production centers called ranchos.

As illustrated in the image of the newspaper announcement shown in Chapter 3,even prominent colonial Americans advertised for runaway slaves in newspapers.

How did African Americans relate to the city of New Orleans in the early 1700s?

Examine the eighteenth-century painting of South Carolina slaves.What aspects of the image reveal a plantation setting?

How did slaves resist the system of slavery?

Why was most slave resistance before the late-eighteenth century generally not part of a coordinated attempt by blacks to destroy the entire institution?

What factor contributed most to the preservation and continuation of West African culture in British North America?

Examine the painting of black families seated in a row along the wall of a shack.What emotional reactions did the artist bestow upon the black people in the room?