Although slavery dates back before 2000 BC to the Sumerians, the status of clack slaves in the early years of colonization in Maryland was unclear. Were they to serve a limited number of years? Were they the property of their owners to do with as they saw fit? The Maryland Statute on Negroes and Other Slaves, a portion of which you will read today, established that all blacks, as well as their children and their families, woul dbe slaves durante vita, that is, for their entire lives.
Read the article given in class and answer the following questions:
1. What do you think was the legislatiors' intent in enacting the Meryland Statute on the Negroes and Other Slaves? What were they trying to protect?
2. Why would the statute address the intermarriage of "freeborn English women" with black men but neglect to mention anything regarding the marriage of white men to black women?
Read the article given in class and answer the following questions:
1. What do you think was the legislatiors' intent in enacting the Meryland Statute on the Negroes and Other Slaves? What were they trying to protect?
2. Why would the statute address the intermarriage of "freeborn English women" with black men but neglect to mention anything regarding the marriage of white men to black women?
1. What do you think was the legislatiors' intent in enacting the Meryland Statute on the Negroes and Other Slaves? What were they trying to protect?
ResponderEliminarif they said that sometimes they could go free then they were giving people the idea that it was ok for them to be free and that they actually were human beings with feelings. however they didn't think that they were "real" people. they wanted to also protect the security of the plantation owners and they wanted to protect their good name. if the slaves thought they could be free then they would be more likely to do whatever they could to get free sooner. the white men had to keep a sense of authority.
2. Why would the statute address the intermarriage of "freeborn English women" with black men but neglect to mention anything regarding the marriage of white men to black women?
it was a no brainer for them. they didn't think that a white man of a good wealth would choose to pick a black woman worth nothing. if they hated black men so much they thought of women as not worth anything.
-joanna
1. The legislation, was basically to keep the colonists away from the slaves. they wanted everything that they did to show that the Africans were inferior to the europeans. the legislation sets veery harsh rules, you are born into slavery and can never get out of it, your children and their children would be slaves. it is a pretty grim concept to enslave someone's' whole family the ones that are living now and the ones that will be living in the future.
ResponderEliminar2. It is a good point, I think that maybe white men felt if they didn't address it as being wrong it might happen. Another reason white men weren't addressed may be because they didn't marry black women, more as, if they were a slave owner they might have forced "relations" with them.
-Roya
1.What do you think was the legislatiors' intent in enacting the Meryland Statute on the Negroes and Other Slaves? What were they trying to protect?
ResponderEliminarTo let the slaves that could read to know they will never br free.They shouldnt have hope in ever gaining freedom. i thought alot of slaves didnt even know our language so how would they read these rules anyway?
They wanted to protect themselves from slave revolt.
Why would the statute address the intermarriage of "freeborn English women" with black men but neglect to mention anything regarding the marriage of white men to black women?
to one back then it was not right to marry a black women. Im sure thier may have been occasions where that might have happend but they would have never let it out to the public becuase of fear.
~ Ashley
1. What do you think was the legislatiors' intent in enacting the Meryland Statute on the Negroes and Other Slaves? What were they trying to protect?
ResponderEliminarTo stop women from intermarrying into the african race, and to also let many africans know that they would never be free.
2. Why would the statute address the intermarriage of "freeborn English women" with black men but neglect to mention anything regarding the marriage of white men to black women?
Because men could do what they want. In a way if they did marry a black women it was probably looked upon as he "owned" her as wasn't looked upon as a big deal, but probably seldom happened
-Sammy Mohney
1. What do you think was the legislatiors' intent in enacting the Meryland Statute on the Negroes and Other Slaves? What were they trying to protect?
ResponderEliminarso that they could clarify laws concerning slaves and they could make an easier decision if a case is brought up in court
2. Why would the statute address the intermarriage of "freeborn English women" with black men but neglect to mention anything regarding the marriage of white men to black women?
I think it was because men had more rights than women at the time.
-Javier