The World of the Slave

1. Arrival--The Transatlantic Slave Trade
   1. Volume and Source--Increasing Direct African Imports
   2. Impact of "Middle Passage" on Slaves
2. Adaptation and Culture
   1. Three Views
      1. African Culture Stripped From Slaves by Trauma of Slavery
      2. African Survivals as Essence of African-American Culture
      3. Creolization--A New, African-American Culture
   2. The Shape of Slave Culture--Two Regional Variants
      1. Chesapeake--Relative European Dominance
         1. Blacks as Minority
         2. Small Slaveholdings--Fragmented Slave Communities
         3. Close White Supervision
         4. Retarded Development of Family Life--Sex Ratios Again
         5. Divisions Between Natives, Newcomers
      2. South Carolina--"More Like a Negro Country"
         1. Black Majority
         2. Heavy African Influx
         3. Large Plantations--The Significance of Rice
         4. Lax White Supervision--The Task System
         5. Indian Slavery
3. Treatment of Slaves
   1. Cultural Tolerance, BUT
   2. Physical Brutality
   3. Nonetheless, Rapid Natural Increase--Contrast With More Southerly Plantation Societies
4. Resistance
   1. Runaways
      1. Individual--Most Likely Among the Acculturated
      2. Collective--Most Likely Among Fresh African Imports
   2. Rebellions--The Stono Rebellion (1739)