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Open Topic notesTopic 2.6 · AP U.S. History
Slavery in the British Colonies
Explain why every British colonial region participated in slavery while law, staple crops, labor organization, demography, culture, family life, and resistance differed by place.
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Explain how land abundance, Atlantic demand, declining servant supply, slave trading, racial ideology, and colonial law expanded chattel slavery.
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Compare Chesapeake, Lower South, Middle Colony, New England, plantation, urban, household, gang, and task-system slavery.
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Analyze how enslaved Africans and their descendants built families, preserved and transformed culture, applied specialized knowledge, and resisted bondage.
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