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17th and 18th century black slaves worked mainly on the tobacco, rice, and indigo plantations of the southern coast

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In less healthy areas, like Boston, the figure was three in ten. Cotton Mather, the famous Boston minister, had 14 children.

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In 32 years he collected 3,000 pairs.

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Some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million slaves were imported

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cotton gin invented 1793'                             1677-78 killed one-fifth of the town's population

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cotton gin invented 1793'                             1677-78 killed one-fifth of the town's population

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Adults, too, looked upon death with foreboding.

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Union victory freed the nations 4 million slaves

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One Indian war, the Pequot War of 1675, killed a larger percentage of the population than any later war in American history.

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cotton gin invented 1793

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 A smallpox epidemic in Boston in 1677-78 killed one-fifth of the town's population.

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 A smallpox epidemic in Boston in 1677-78 killed one-fifth of the town's population.

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In the healthiest regions, one child in ten died during the first year of life.

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In the healthiest regions, one child in ten died during the first year of life.

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1. One of Puritan New England’s foremost ministers and scholars, died in 1723 at his home in Boston.

2. Upon his death bed, he faced his life's end with desperate fear and trembling.

3. John Tappin died in Boston in 1673 at the age of 18.

4. He suffered bitter spiritual torment in the face of death as well.

5. The first 102 Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth in 1620, half died during the first winter.

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Surviving the First Year of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Surviving the First Year of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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1. The natives came to trade with the settlers
2. They built boats to fish
3. They had guards who watched at night
4.John Winthrop (the governor)
5. In the winter most settlers planned well and still had stock, but the natives helped those who didn't

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producing death rates as high as 30 per thousand.

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Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to North America Jamestown, Virginia , 1619

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1. The first 102 Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth in 1620 half died during the first winter.
2. Diseases like influenza, measles, pneumonia, scarlet fever, and smallpox ravaged the population, producing death rates as high as 30 per thousand.
3.After 1650 Puritan funerals became increasingly elaborate and expensive and tombstones less plain.
4. Where, in the seventeenth century, children were told to fear death, they were increasingly told in the eighteenth century look forward to death as a reunion with God and their parents.
5. In cemeteries which were now described as dormitories winged cherubs replaced the grisly deaths heads and winged skulls that marked early Puritan graves.

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5 Facts
>Hundreds of settlers died for wants of food.
>since the first English fleet dropped anchor in the river they called King James, off the island where they raised Jamestown.
> the 1607 arrivals numbered 104 or 105 men and boys of whom half were dead by year's end.

>Jamestown had cought fire in 1608
> The fire was the cause of lost equipment and food water and shelter the fire made the living numbers drop major because of the fire