African Diaspora in the Americas
Slavery and Freedom at the time of the Revolution
The African Slave Trade
Middle passage
Demography (by 1750)
The Terrible Transformation
From indentured servitude to racial slavery.
Ethnic groups ca. 1750-1770
Africans in the Revolution
Who would offer freedom?
Colonel Ty
The "Book of Negroes"
African Americans killed on the side of the provincials
Slavery 1780-1865
Progress has different meanings for different people. And for people of African descent, the cotton gin was not progress. It was a further entrenchment of enslavement. And for African Americans, the Industrial Revolution, those technological advances in the textile industry, did not mean progress. It meant slavery.
- Margaret Washington, historian
Generations of enslavement, 1750-1863
1860
Population percentages, 1860
Free people of Color
Abolitionism
Emancipation
Uncommon knowledge about the African Diaspora in the Americas
Latin American Diaspora
Free black communities
Demographic consequences