Slave codes were a method of protecting the investment of white enslavers in the Colonies by restricting the lives of enslaved people in almost every imaginable way. The codes restricted enslaved people’s ability to move around, or engage in commerce that could make them financially independent - they restricted the opportunities that would allow them to live with even relative freedom. Today, we'll learn how Colonies put laws in place to restrict the movement and freedoms of enslaved people and free Black people.
VIDEO SOURCES
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans (New York: Knopf, 1967).
Claude M. Steele, Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Reprint Edition ed. 2011).
Black Codes and Slave Codes, Colonial, , Oxford African American Studies Center , http://oxfordaasc.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-44570 .
Peter H. Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York: W.W. Norton, 1974).
Jennifer L. Morgan, Partus sequitur ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery, 22 Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 1–17 (2018).
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VIDEO SOURCES
-Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998).
-John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans (New York: Knopf, 1967).
-Claude M. Steele, Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Reprint Edition ed. 2011).
-Black Codes and Slave Codes, Colonial, , Oxford African American Studies Center , http://oxfordaasc.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-44570 .
-Peter H. Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York: W.W. Norton, 1974).
-Jennifer L. Morgan, Partus sequitur ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery, 22 Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 1–17 (2018).
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@tnttagger65593 years agoAbsolutely tragic that this series isn' t being viewed by nearly as many people that it should be. 1310
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@chamilitary073 years agoI love your knowledge about the african american history. As a black man myself i can see how this is relevant. The legacy of the slave code still lives on til this day. I look forward to your future videos. 315
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@johndanielson37773 years agoCrash course is about to teach what a lot of american schools don' t want to. 1937
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@ajt78993 years agoPainful, but important knowledge. Thank you. 909
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@EcceQuomodoMoritur003 years agoThis continues to be a very enlightening series. Thank you for the clear explanations! 781
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@tresaidh3y903 years agoWatched all of this series this morning and my goodness i' m ashamed in how much i did not know about my own history. 293
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@rockstar122013 years agoBlack american history should be an essential part of education in the united states. 248
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@Miikhiel3 years agoThis is both powerful and disheartening. 184
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@anapizarrohernandez5613 years agoThank you for taking your time to make these great educational videos crash course. This very important, so we learn the root of when all of these issues started. 168
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@mauriciomf8803 years agoClint is doing a great job. Such a shame that the subject matter requires discussions of black american history to be somber and depressing. So glad to be learning about it. 239
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@MrChristiangraham3 years agoThanks again, clint. I' m learning a lot through this series. 310
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@JoelRipke3 years agoI think this history is important to know. Thank you. 412
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@elora179last yearRoots 1977 made me cry but it was needed. I live in england but american history is taught here. This crash course was worth watching. 3
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@Bruh69_4203 years agoThese videos are amazing and incredibly interesting. Great job guys. 211
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@alexanderphilip18093 years agoVery calm and reasoned presentation. This should be taught in schools. Facts not opinions. 138
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@ingaman3 years agoClint, you are probably the best person to host this series. 79
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@Just2gofoodslast yearThis video has over 1m views. Awesome! I plan to see every video in this series. 5
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@harrisonachunche40983 years agoAnother great video brother. I really appreciate the way you approach this topic. 62
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@AngelTiel3 years agoAs much as i have learned from and enjoyed other series, i subscribed via patreon because of this series. Being from the uk, we are taught about the slave we can' t go back in time and we can' t correct every wrong from the past but it' s never been clearer to me that the legacy of colonialism impacts anlife chances and opportunities today. Until there is a level of cultural acceptance as to the history of the us and that it' s rise as a world power owed an awful lot to the work of the enslaved, appropriate restitution is unlikely to happen. For many people, this series will be a starting point in their understanding of that cultural history. ...Expand143
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@rolldecode3 years agoThis is awesome, i' m so glad to be learning this! Great that crash course is doing this! 177
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@shaneshears6735last yearIts insane that i am 40 and just learning this. Ill take some of the blame because it is my responsibility to know. However, why was i not taught any of this in school? They sure shoved christopher columbus down my throat. 12
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@bari-raerudolph91402 years agoThis is an invaluable resource to ad to my early american history course. Students love it. 2
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@Hugatree4melast yearReading those laws typed out on that old piece of paper was chilling. 2
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@whatever364303 years agoReally enjoying this series! Thank you for making it! 53
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@narimenesalhi9773 years agoTomorrow im having my exam on slavery thank you so much for this video and the whole serie in general it really helped me in my revision. 64
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@latishiaeddarif28882 years agoThere were things i knew however you did shed light on a few things i wasn' t aware of. Knowing this timeline is key. 1
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@shalardi3 years agoThank you for these videos clint. Probably one of the most important topics one can learn about, while also being one of the most intentionally misrepresented by the american schooling system. 62
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@Lowkeyy2224 months agoI am taking my first african american studies class and i think this video will be helpful got me to understand the subject matter for our first essay. Thank you.
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@daddyking15409 months agoVery helpful and useful series. Thank you, but our people did not. Overcome these laws, we survive them because they still exist today. 3
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@davidcrosthwaite2 years agoDang, i thought this video was going to be an inspiring video about the codes used to communicate and escape. How wrong i was. 3
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@DavidJamesHenry3 years agoI don' t think it' s too far off to say that workers are always an underclass, that corporations always look at their employees only as monetary slavery is different, worse, than that. A worker can' t leave their job because they need to pay rent, pay bills, raise a family, a slave can' t leave their job because they' ll be physically tortured if they try. there is a distinction to be made here. ...Expand132
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@janmelantu74903 years agoEnslaver governments: ban enslaved people from having loud musical instruments enslaved people: start using boxes as instruments, calling them cajns enslaver governments: . 19
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@milesexplains3 years agoAnother great video. Is this a sad story of unnecessary harm or a triumphant story the progress made? Both. Lets proudly own the history we want to r id="hidden10"epeat and make sure we separate our identities from the crimes of our ancestors. ...Expand34
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@mahrukhmazhar45263 years agoBeing black is awesome but our history is so sad. 333
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@PureTopic03 years agoDeeper understanding of slavery in america and why its still being felt today. 119
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@oddjob19323 years agoIt was a dark and shameful chapter in human(not so)kind' s history. 65
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@derricknichols57873 months agoI wonder if american slaves could go back & get the paperwork from the slave master to see what they had planned for their slaves. If anything happened to them?
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@bigbroda45thpres7810 months agoSo far i aint learned nothing new. Im on this part right here. Waiting for him to bring up the democrat party. 1
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