History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0468 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Slavery in Every Colony
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The idea
Every colony had enslaved people, from the southern rice plantations in Charles Town to the northern wharves of Boston.
In practice
A system the anchor says influenced every aspect of colonial thought and culture.
Where people slip
It gave White colonists an exaggerated sense of their own status by contrasting their liberty with the unfreedom of enslaved Black people.
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