Chapter 1: Many Thousands Gone: Black Experiences in Colonial America

A Student’s Guide to Essential Primary Sources
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Chapter 1 Many Thousands Gone:Black Experiences in Colonial America
The Earliest Africans
Early Laws Regulating Slavery
Colonists Opposing Slavery
Early Slave Rebellions
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Abstract

The Black experience and the struggle against enslavement in colonial America are at the root of European colonization. In the early sixteenth century, people of African descent were present at the earliest moments of Spanish, French, and English exploration. Captured, shipped, and sold in a brutal middle passage recounted by Alexander Falconbridge in “An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa,” African labor was responsible for much of the economic export from the Americas into the Atlantic World.

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