History 103 *** AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877 *** Sept. 20, 1996

AFRICANIZATION AND ANGLICIZATION

I. Atlantic Slave Trade

• Origins
• English participation

II. Carolina

• Proprietors' aims
• John Locke's "Fundamental Constitutions"
• Rice
• Emergence of black majority
• Stono Rebellion (1739)

III. African Experience in Early 18th-Century America

• Pattern of slave importations
• Cultural dynamics: transmission and adaptation of African beliefs
• Demographic trends

IV. The Political Economy of Empire

• English mercantilism
• Navigation Acts
• Imperial system

V. Political Anglicization

• English political model: "mixed" constitution
• Colonial imitation
• Elite consolidation

VI. Cultural and Social Anglicization

• Social display by elites
• Ideal of cultivation