What forms of labor did the British initially use in North ...

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

Question 2

How did African Americans continue various elements of their African heritage during slavery? What does this tell us about Africans from a social and cultural standpoint?
 
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Answer to Question 1

Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Explain the lack of use of Indian slavery by white colonials because of resistance, disease, and high death rates for native people.
2. Explain the development of white indentured servitude as the most common form of coercive labor in the early American colonies.
3. Explain the creation of new laws by Virginia whites that slowly enslaved blacks for life, closed religious loopholes, defined a child's status as the same as the mother's status, and made slavery a lifelong institution for the individual.
4. Comment on other factors that produced black slavery, such as European cultural attitudes against African people, and the presence of slavery in the Caribbean.

Answer to Question 2

Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Explain how Africans preserved culture in religious practices and language.
2. Explain how Africans preserved their culture in naming of children, clothing patterns and adornment, and dietary cuisine.
3. Conclude that African preservation of African culture tells us that Africans resisted slavery and remained bicultural over time. Slavery did not destroy African American people, their memories and practices of Africa, and their will to surmount slavery.