Lecture 5: Indentured Servitude in the Americas

1. Legal Status and Treatment of Servants
   
   
2. The Fate of Servants and of Servitude
   1. Changing Opportunities
   2. The Decline of Indentured Service
      1. declining supply
      2. declining demand

3. Servitude and Slavery: Alternative Labor Systems
   
   
4. A 19th-century Resurgence of Servitude: The Caribbean

Lecture 6: The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Origins of African Slavery in the British North American Colonies

1. Overview of the African Slave Trade and Slavery in the Americas

2. Distribution of Imported Slaves over Time and by Destination

3. Equiano's Narrative and the Slave Trade

4. Emergence of Slavery in Virginia

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