A New History of the American South Episode 3, Slavery Becomes American Episode 3, Slavery Becomes American.

Streaming video - 2018

Examine economic conditions within Virginia before slavery, and growing discontent among English indentured laborers. Trace the rise of slavery in the British Caribbean, the factors that made it a practical business model in Virginia, and how colonists rationalized slaveholding. Observe how Virginia set the blueprint for slave society in what would become the American South.