in 1619 the first Africans in Virginia?

Question

a. held a different status than those who came later
b. had a lower status than the indentured white
c. were owned by the shareholders not by individuals
d. denied religious services by the church

Answer 1

b

Answer 2

They were treated better than indentured servants who were only "leased" for a set number of years, they wanted to keep the Africans alive. indentured servants could also escape and blend into the population, so attempts to run away were dealt with more severely, and measures to prevent it more harsh. Where would teh Africans go? They couldn't speak the language, they were in a strange land of terrifying forests with strange creatures and Native tribes were not always receptive of these strange new people. Also, they quickly found indentured servants couldn't take the heat (during teh 1600's there was a heat wave and seven year drought, worse than anything seen in recent years) like teh Africans, whose biggest problem was the cold. they were denied religous services, because Christainity and slavery were not compatable, no matte rhow they stretched or tried to evade it, the Abolitionists used Jesus Christ to make any slave owner ashamed, a lot of people involved in slavery turned against it in their lifetime, becasue they knew their own salvation was in doubt, they knew it was wrong, but they had locked themselves into an economic system where they couldn't destroy it without destroying themselves, and that meant debtor's prison, and certain death. Slavery began as an experiment, both here, and on teh otherside of the ocean, where it was the only goods local tribes had to swop for goods. Slaving ships on the African coast, from Africa, such as the Barbary pirates, ranged as far away as Iceland, before the US Marines cleaned house at Tripoli. Yes, it should have been abolished at the creation of the USA, and if you look at the document Thomas Jefferson drafted (based on the Declaration of Arbroath), he attempted to abolish slavery, but it was edited out over his objections, in order to get all the colonies to endorse it. Jefferson likewise tried to get the abolishment of slavery written into the Virginia and US Constitutions, with similar results. And he stated that someday the nation would face a reckoning for it. But indentured servancy continued as well, President Andrew Johnson was a bond slave as a boy. You didn't have to trade passage to America to be indentured, being convicted of any crime, even stealing food to survive, or captured Jacobites/suspects participating in the fight against English rule in Scotland (for the lucky ones) caused some to be brought against their will, before they discovered Australia and began shipping them to Botany Bay.

Answer 3

B -

Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to many poor Englishmen who traded several years labor in exchange for passage to America

Answer 4

e. Were denied firearm ownership like all slaves.

Answer 5

e. hung from willow trees.

Answer 6

let's go with A.