How did the experience under slavery differ in the northern and southern British colonies of North America in the seventeenth century? What factors shaped resistance strategies in various regions of the North and South, and in urban and rural locations where slavery existed? How did “race” and “slavery” come to be almost synonymous? Was it not possible to extend slavery to “white” persons? Did geography and climate affect the development of slavery in the European colonies in North America? If so, how.