APUSH

Slavery & Freedom Sources

Name:_____________
Date:______________

Directions: Use your Morgan article in addition to the sources listed below to complete the chart using APUSH Historical Thinking Skills. Check the back
of this chart for definitions.
Focus Question: Why did the labor system in Virginia switch from heavy reliance on a labor system of indentured servitude as a society with slaves, to a
labor system employing slave labor in a newly developed slave society?

Morgan Article

Continuity & Change Over

Time

Historical Causation

Use of Evidence

Historical Argumentation

Continuity:
-The American Paradox
-Struggle for Separate but
Equal

-Rise of tobaccoRise of
Slavery
-Rise in TradeRise of
Slavery
-Liberty extended for
freemen Rise of Slavery
-More slavesLess
indentured servantsLess
criminalsLess risk for
rebellion

-Colonial Historian POV

-Primary sources from
Virginia
-Focus on Virginia case
study
-Journal of American
History, 1972

-The American Paradox:

Rise of Slavery & Freedom
-Choice to turn to slavery
vs. economic gain
-Slavery enabled Virginians
to want rep. gov., equal to
New England
-Revolution made the
paradox more glaring

-Rise in the pop. of convicts

from Europemore crime in
colonies
-More crime in
coloniesmore rights
granted to free men
-More rights to free
menMore slaves imported
and used for economic gain

-Date driven source from

Foner textbook
-Covers all American
Colonies, not only Virginia
-Based on immigration
records

-Shows data of population

and rise of the slave trade
-Economic benefit of
slavery in colonies Free
labor source

Change Over Time:

-Rise of Liberty & Slavery
-Rights of free men
-Ideas of Freedom & Liberty

Foner Table 3.1

(Page 114)

Continuity:
-Pop. Free migrants from
Europe
-Pop. Convicts from Ire.,
Eng., Scot. /also declines
Change Over Time:
-Rise of slave trade
-Triangle trade

Decisions of the
General Court
A Servant Uprising
in Virginia

Continuity:
-Relationship between
servitude & Slavery
-Race makes it easy to divide
Change Over Time:
-Slavery becomes the more
popular choice for planters

Gov Berkeley

Continuity:
-Fear of rebellion from free
men
-Protection of land against
threats
Change Over Time:
-Who is attacking the land
-Type of people threatened by

-More legal right for

indentured servants less for
black servants
-Masters have control of
punishment

-Court Records, 1640

-Detailed descriptions of
crimes and individual
punishment

-First record of someone

being sentenced to slavery
work in shackle one year
of more as his master shall
see cause
-Obvious example of racial
bias
-Immediate separation
between servants and
negro in court record

-Fear free men will defect and

join rebellionGranted more
rights
-Men afraid to leave property
to help fight property
owners divided from nonproperty owners

-Notice to the crown,

December 1673
-POV Governor Berkeley
of Virginia notice to the
crown
-Trying to persuade the
crown to send
support/consider they are
vulnerable

-Evidence of the Govs

fears of rebellion by free
men (White)
-Fear of rebellion,
warranted since Bacons is
coming in 1676