Topic for Week 4:

Theme: Making a Living, Part 1: Colonial America

1. Respond to the postings of at least two different students in the Migrations discussion. For more information on responding to an online discussion, please see the General Instructions for Online Discussions

2. Read/view the introduction to Week 4.

3. Do the required reading for the week:

On Canvas: From Chapter 5: “Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century, 1701-1770” in James L. Roark, et al., The American Promise: A History of the United States, Volume 1: To 1877, Third Edition (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005), pages 134-161
On Canvas: Essay: Richard S. Dunn, “Servants and Slaves: Portraits in White and Black” in Eileen Boris and Nelson Lichtenstein, eds., Major Problems in the History of American Workers (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1991), 46-58

4. View the PowerPoint presentations for the week:

PP4A: The Colonies in an Atlantic Economy
PP4B: Free Labor? Indentured Servants and Convicts
PP4C: Slave Labor

5. View the optional handout Codifying Race and Slavery that describes the gradual legal codification of Africans as slaves in the colonies.

6. Complete the work for the theme Making a Living Part 1: Colonial America by participating in an online discussion. Your initial posting to this discussion is due this week; your responses to other students will be assigned and are due next week (Week 5/September 18-24)