At the same time, the Dutch claimed the Delaware, the Hudson, and the Connecticut River valleys (Murin, 53); with such strongholds, the Dutch West India Company controlled much of the slave trades in the Americas. ... Asians love their children just as much as Americans, Europeans and Africans. ...
Allowed by their owners to bring up their children and organize their domestic lives, they carried out their chores, cooking, making clothes, and their leisure activities all within distance of their masters house enabled the slave community to flourish. ... Parents lived with their children although husbands might belong to another property. ... Slaves baptized in rivers where reminded of their African past "what mattered was that the convert understood God's work in his or her heart; it was not important if the minutiae of doctrine remained unknown and incomprehensible (Walvin 2001;p161...
Once established in the family he became almost an integral part of it; he was the loyal domestic, respected, feared, and consulted by the children. Due to the matriarchal and polygamous regime, we feel him closer to us, because he belongs to our mother, than the slave of the father, who is at an equal distance, socially speaking, from all the children of the same father and different mothers. ...
Even though most Native American tribes held prisoners of war captive, there were some circumstances in which growth of a tribe was threatened, resulting in the capturing of mostly women and children as sort of an "adoption" strategy (Davis). ... Benjamin Hawkins, who was the Superintendent of the tribes south of the Ohio River at the time, strongly and forcefully encouraged several southeastern tribes to adopt chattel slavery in order to have enough labor for their plantations and agricultural production, as part of their adaptation of European ways. ...
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...
