• people who know each other and might help each other because they feel some connection
• if you can't count on any legal rights, then networks may be the only source of help you have
• .limitations on the use of the courts--judges tended to do what they wanted, common law was evolving
  
• who is a citizen--white men, in some states only those who owned property

• churches in which slaves and whites worshiped side by side
• Second Great Awakening--denominations sent out preachers to visit communities and persuade people to make an individual commitment to God and join a church

• you get both individual choice and more community, so this was successful
• Methodist beliefs
  

Methodist anti-slavery



employable skills and incentives (not always followed through) to work hard

how did technological changes change the way slavery worked?


Solomon Bayley
what did it mean to rent his wife?




Aaron Cooper




Charles Ball