Lecture 21: New World Slavery from Steven Volk on Vimeo.
http://0.tqn.com/d/africanhistory/1/0/6/M/SlaveryTable002.jpg
http://0.tqn.com/d/africanhistory/1/0/7/M/TriangleTrade001.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/barbados_01.shtml
http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/308
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution
14 comments:
Germaine is mean.
There were a variety of religious beeliefs and pactice through out the colonies of seperate groupps sucj as the Puritans,seperatists, quakers, and roman catholics. Puritans wanted to purify from the church of England. they wanted everyone to practice Catholicism in Massachusetts.the Seperatists completely seperated themselves from the eupean religion. they were independent. The Quaker were a gropu of people that had broke off from the Puritans. the Roman Catholics were from spain and weanted everyone to practice and believe in christisnity. a political view was seperrate churches and states for different beliefs and practices in religion.
American Diversity
Different Races
Europeans- British, German, Spanish and French
Africans and Indians
Classes
Men often had most of the rights and were the landowners.
Women had very few rights and had to do ouseold activities. Divorce was unruly.
Wealty landowners upper class
Craftspeople Middle class
slaves lower class
Slaves were often African Americansand the Indians. They were to work the land and help bring in money and keep production going.
there relations at first were well became became very abrupt.
the diversity through the colonies was all set up by the way people had been treated with each other. iT showed how people interacted with each other and how they were treated.
Colonial government pre-1763 was not a true democracy but limited. The biggest example of democracy in colonial society was the state assembly. Although these assemblies often weren't respected by the governors of the colonies, they did carry infuence as the voice of the people. The strength of the assemblies were undeniable. as shown with the failure of the dominion of new england. another early sign of democracy in the colonies was the zenger case. the zenger case showed that there was some form of freedom of press, which was nonexistent in monarchic britain. the free press is an important aspect of a stable democracy.
the colonies were unreceptive to the crown stepping in and tightening control over the new england colonies. The pool of people who did have a say in government was rather small. Across the colonies, only white, christian, landowning males had voting rights.
British mercantilist laws dictated the colonies' economy. For example, the Navigation Acts.This excluded colonial trade with all foreign merchants and vessels along with the Staple Act which forced planters to buy most of their manufactured goods from England. in the end the colonies can be described as exclusionary due to a culture that has developed segregation. seperate laws were made against blacks to due to the rise of slavery. blacks did not have the basic civil rights that other colonists had. the government, as stated before, favored white landowning christian males. therefore colonial government was not a true democracy but quite limited
Well done. Keep it coming!
American Diversity:
Many colonial citizens did not view themselves as Americans,however most viewed themselves by where they were from.Most either viewed themselves and each other by the colony in which they resided and some even
considered themselves British and were loyal to the crown.
J is awful at scrabble...just sayin'
Colonists moved to north america to start a new life for themselves.Many saw it as a new opportunity to start over and many also left England in search of religious freedom Although they saw themselves as independent,some still felt loyal to the crown.Colonists saw themselves as einomically independent due to the resources that the colonists had at their disposal in North America.
Dante is a weenie.
Religion was a substantial part of the development of the British colonies in America pre-1763. The variety of beliefs and practices allowed citizens to make their own decisions about how and why they worshipped. A major religious pact was the Puritans. They left England to purify the Church of England and to escape religious persecution. The Separatists wanted to completely separate from European religion completely. The Quakers broke off from the Puritans and formed their own settlement. The Roman Catholic colonists were from Spain.
Religion influenced politics, the economy, and society. The Puritans wanted church and government to be combined but other groups did not. The Puritans thought their work was for God and they directly involved their economy into the works of Him. Societies and settlements formed from dissenters (Quakers). Colonists with similar views lived near each other and those with opposing did not.
Today we now know that slavery was not the only solution, or alternative that the south should have chosen, but in those times anyone who own land and needed it to be worked, believed that without slavery they would be economically crushed. Slavery upheld such a legacy for so long because it became institutionalized, and a way of life. In the beginning before there was slavery, laborers were white indentured servants that came from Europe. As time went by landowners realized that the white indentured servants were quite lazy, so in 1619 when a dutch ship came by Jamestown with a cargo of unsold African slaves, they ended up being sold to Virginians who owned tobacco plantations,and they thought it was a great idea because they thought that they would prosper with the extra hands. Initially the African slaves were supposed to be treated like any other indentured servant that would be then released in seven years, but as time went on owners observed that the white indentured servants were lazy and the African slaves worked quickly and efficiently. In the end the reason why Slavery and its legacy lasted so long is because of the fact that over time it became cheaper to have African slaves rather than indentured servants, because everyone believed that they could be released in a matter of seconds, and owning slaves just became imbedded in the mines of all and apart of American culture.
In the colonies pre-1763 the roles of class, gender, ethnicity, and race played a big part in the development of the United States. While America was beginning to take form many immigrants from around the world settled in the colonies. This population included Europeans, English, Germans, Scotch-Irish, Africans, and the previously settled Indians. Even though this population included many different types of people it didn’t mean they all got along or were treated in the same manner. The colonies went by a class order which included the lower middle and upper classes. The upper class included wealthy landowners who were mostly men. Then the middle class was made up of craftspeople and finally the lower class which was made up of indentured servants, African slaves, and people with little money. These classes also set relationships between people depending on their economic status. The African population was treated very badly compared to the wealthy population. The African slaves were treated with disrespect and had little to no rights depending on where the plantation was they were working on. Yet they weren’t the only ones. Native Americans also were treated with disrespect. They were pushed out of their homes for incoming immigrants and most dies from diseases brought over by the immigrants. Among the disrespect between races there were many differences between both the males and females.
In the colonies males and females of a household were totally different. The males of a wealthy plantation had many more rights. They had the right to vote, dominated politics, and had unlimited power in their household, and had the right to beat their wives. While the females had little to no rights. The females of a household would have to stay in and take care of the house, obey what their husband tells them, and home school their children. In the colonies there were many different ways of living and the diversity made disagreements more prominent than if the population was all the same.
Pass that guacamole!
ahaha!!! oh i get it now!! :) pass dat guacamole!! :D
Post a Comment