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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You may want to consider social‚ economic‚ and geographical. Prior to the Atlantic slave trade‚ the arable land along the South Atlantic seaboard were owned by wealth landowners and farmed primarily by either Native American slaves or white indentured servants. Beginning in the late 16th century and becoming ever more prominent in the 17th‚ the Atlantic slave trade was an inhumane trading system which transported large amounts of Africans to the Americas for slavery. These captives were brought along
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There were now not enough english indentured servants‚ and owners began to rely on the work of African-American slaves. This occurred in 1670 when english birth rates dropped‚ and the economy increased( The Colonia Population). Bacon’s rebellion also influenced the major start of slavery in the United States for indentured servants were often promised land upon finishing the required labor and more often than not the rewards were not given to them. Indentured servants were also freed after a certain
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controlled by others. Indentured servants wouldn’t suffice because they had not been brought over in sufficient quantity. Also‚ indentured servants only had to work for a few years to repay their debt. Indentured servants eventually assimilated into society‚ increasing the need for laborers. Black slaves were the answer‚ as a million blacks had already been brought from Africa to the Portuguese and Spanish colonies. The first Africans that arrived in Virginia were considered as servants‚ but were treated
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economically. That was the start of the indentured servants for the individuals who could not afford to pay the fare‚ and as a result was paid by the landowners. In return they have to repay by working for them for a number of years. After paying off their time‚ the indentured servants were free.
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Since we have already discussed the conceptualizations of both childhood and adolescence‚ perhaps it makes sense to start a discussion of a history of African-Americans in the United States with a discussion of the concept of slavery. When Englishmen first landed in the New World to form colonies on the Eastern shore of what would become America‚ they did not arrive with the idea of enslaving other people (Jordan‚ 1968). The first wave of immigrants‚ just like perhaps every other wave of new arrivals
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I. Answer the following questions as completely as possible. Use The American Pageant chapters 2‚ 3 and 4 and any other source you’d like. List all sources after each answer. 1. Who were the Puritans? Why did they come to America to settle? The puritans were a group of religious reformers wanted to purify the Church of England they were unpopular and oppressed therefore they got a charter and left England the king was very happy to sign the charter and get them out of their land. They came
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With a growing demand for tobacco and sugar and a shortage of workers‚ England saw slavery as the only option. Britain had been colonizing in the new world for many years before slavery became a commonplace in English-American society. In fact‚ in Give Me Liberty author Eric Foner writes‚ “...the shipping of slaves from Africa to the New World became a major international business. But only a relative handful were brought to England’s mainland colonies. By the time plantation slavery became a major
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social order (p. 28).” The economy‚ the way of life‚ and culture were all transformed when the first indentured servants came over. Throughout the seventeenth century‚ labor was mainly done by indentured servants. In the 1680’s however‚ the mainland colonies took on a massive shift from indentured to slave labor. With the demand rising in the colonies and the lack of availability of indentured servants‚ black slaves became the most popular choice. According to Kolchin‚ “slaves were held permanently
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