this new world many people wanted to go there even though it was dangerous. During the seventeenth century America‚ many people went for freedoms such as religious and economic; however‚ not everyone came for this reason‚ for others came as indentured servants and slaves as
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three indentured servants‚ 2 white and one black‚ by the names of John Punch‚ James Greggory and Victor working in tobacco fields in the Chesapeake Bay had finally had enough of the way they were being treated by their master. The three of them decided to try an escape. They were captured after a couple of days and returned to face trial. James Greggory and Victor‚ the two white indentured servants‚ were given additional years added onto their contracts. John Punch‚ the black indentured servant‚ was
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During the seventeenth century‚ in response to the change of; environment‚ social structure‚ family nature and society itself the diversities in the New England and Chesapeake cultures grew immensely. Some differences proved to be too much of a challenge for some and prosperous for others. New England families kept the traditional family structure known as a nuclear family‚ consisting of the head of the household‚ the father‚ mother and their children. The religious traditions carried over from
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The Origins of American Slavery The Origins of American Slavery‚ by Betty Wood‚ is a short book about the early backgrounds of American slavery. The book focuses on why the English decided to enslave others as well as why they targeted the West Africans. As explained throughout the book the reasoning comes from a combination of both economic and racial considerations. The English had no intention of enslaving anyone when they first arrived in the New World. Overtime they realized for their own success
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After failing with indentured servitude‚ White settlers imported Africans in pursuit of maximizing productivity and consequently receiving higher profits. As we discussed in class‚ planters in Virginia were aware of the rewards they could reap by enslaving Africans. Unlike the indentured servants contracts that limited the duration of work summoned by White settlers‚ enslaving Africans meant that planters
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land. But when profits failed to materialize and the colony became infamous for its high mortality rate‚ the company began shipping servants to Virginia at its own expense and placing them on company-owned land. An Englishman willing to risk his life in order to work someone else’s acreage was not usually someone who could afford transatlantic passage. Once the servants arrived‚ the company could rent them out to planters for a year at a time‚ requiring the planters to take responsibility for the workers’
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Ques -Explain how and why slavery developed in the American colonies. Why couldn’t colonists use indentured servants as they had in the past? Ans -The study of labor in the United States has a tendency to lean towards a myopic analysis of the battle between corporations and unions. Working-class organization struggling against industrial titans understandably dominates any modern labor discussion‚ but the sources of these conflicts in the US are older than the nation itself. The labor system
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Throughout the book‚ The Origins of Slavery‚ the author‚ Betty Woods‚ depicts how religion and race along with social‚ economic‚ and political factors were the key factors in determining the exact timing that the colonist’s labor bases of indentured Europeans would change to involuntary West African servitude. These religion and racial differences along with the economic demand for more labor played the key roles in the formation of slavery in the English colonies. When the Europeans first arrived
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it would be ill advised to kill one of their own slaves‚ many slaves did die under their strenuous circumstances. The rights of slaves varied greatly from those of indentured servants. Slaves were looked at as property‚ while using indentured servants was more of a business agreement. After an agreed period of time indentured servants were free‚ while slaves were kept for life‚ or until traded. The slaves were not allowed to read or write and were kept illiterate in fear of retaliation. There have
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First Examination (Response #1) When the Europeans arrived in the Caribbean‚ they were looking to invade and inhabit the land. Little did they know‚the islands were already occupied by other groups of people at the time. One of those groups were the Ciboneys‚ or the Guanahuateby(Lucayans) who were inhabiting the Watlings Islands. The Ciboneys were believed to be the first group of people to inhabit the island. They migrated from the Orinico region‚ probably through Florida and the Bahamas
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