Alienation In Colonial Times

Throughout the centuries, America has evolved day after day and will keep evolving until America no longer needs to evolve. But until then one thing America has faced through all those years and even today in modern day America is Alienation. Alienation, not those bizarre creatures that live in outer space, but those people from foreign countries who are treated as outcasts. This issue started even before the settlements of the thirteen colonies. This is American history and no one can change, but we can make correct our mistakes and excel to a better tomorrow.

Slavery In Colonial Times

Before America had fifty states, it started off with only thirteen colonies. Each colony with their similarities and difference, but try to manage
Britain thinks they have everything in place, but what if everything takes a step towards a different direction.

The 13 colonies are separated into three groups: northern colonies, middle colonies, and southern colonies. The northern colonies also known as “ The New England Colonies ” consist of four colonies, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The colonist who live in the New England colonies left Britain to pursue on following their own religion. Most of the colonist later became small farmers, who produced enough crops to provide for their families and also manage to trade good they couldn't make themselves. With the new land they were living in they used the resources given to them by the surroundings. They took advantage of the Atlantic Coast rich fishing water and opened up jobs to those who would want to become a fisherman. While others became wealthy merchants who were buying and selling products that support farming and fishing. The Atlantic Coast became a major trade commerce center and it would travel to locations like the Caribbean, England, and elsewhere. The Middle Colonies were known as “ The
In the northern colonies, Rhode Island had the largest proportion of Africans slaves. Yet freedom for African slaves could be gained in many ways, Such as being Manumitted for faithful service or through the will of the their owners. From the 17th century onward, slaves in the north can be spotted in most fields of the northern economic life. The slaves in the north worked as carpenters, shipwrights, sailmakers, printers, tailors, shoemakers, blacksmiths, bakers, weavers, goldsmiths, or either a household slave. In the middle colonies by 1750 only 7% of the middle colonies population were enslaved. It was said to have a “sizable” of slaves in the middle colonies. In Pennsylvania the slave population was growing at a very low rate due to Quakers disagreeing about the issue of slavery. Although most of the other colonies agreed with slavery Quakers saw the African slaves as equals compared to a white person. The middle colonies did have slaves, but yet a very small amount of African slaves. Colonies in the south dependent on slaves the most, due to them having plantations and needing workers. On those plantations they grew cotton, indigo, and sugar, therefore they relied on slaves to do all their work for them. The growth