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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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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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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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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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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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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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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