2 gen 1619 anni - First of African slaves arrive in America, VA House of Burgesses est.

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SLAVERY IN EARLY COLONIES
- Indentured Servitude
- Predominant earlier British colonies
- Poor, criminals, and debtors gain passage to
colony in return for years of labor under
planter or corp.
- Headright System (VA, MD)
- For each servant brought to US, servent and
planter is promised 50 acres of land
- Planters accumulate HUGE tracts of land
(inc. stratification of wealth)
- Servants rarely received promised land (inc.
class conflict

HOUSE OF BURGESSES
- Similar to British Parlaiment, with half governor appointees and half voted in
- First representative house of govt. in America
- Voting at first only freemen, then requried 50 acres land ownership

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