Jamestown Origins In The Americas Essay
Slave Origins in the Americas
10/13/13
APUSH
Alex Peasley
1 In 1609-1610 Jamestown, Virginia experienced a great famine. After this famine the settlers experimented to find a crop that would help them survive. Tobacco was the crop Jamestown found to help them survive.* Jamestown was able to grow fields and fields of tobacco, but there was not enough people to work the fields. At first, the men of the English working class supplied the labors for the fields. Indentured servants were also brought in to work the fields. But such workers were susceptible to disease and often proved unreliable as they could always choose to leave work behind and return to their people.* In 1619 Jamestown didn 't have enough white people to work the land so they bought about 20 African workers. "For the English people in the New World there was really three labor options. One is to transport people from England to the New World. Another is to employ or exploit the indigenous labor...And the third is to bring people in from Africa."* In 1619 , when Africans were first brought into Britain 's North America they were to be treated as indentured servants. Regardless of color all servants were supposed to be granted freedom after so many years of labor. In 1640 John Punch tried to runaway and his …show more content…
Slavery started out as a small minor issue, but it grew into something huge. It was such a big deal that some colonies would even agree to independence (everyone but Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hancock, and Thompson walked out on signing the Declaration of Independence) because they couldn 't keep their slaves. Majority of the states/colonies would rather stay under a cruel British Monarch than to give up their slaves. The African workers that were brought here as indentured servants ended up becoming
10/13/13
APUSH
Alex Peasley
1 In 1609-1610 Jamestown, Virginia experienced a great famine. After this famine the settlers experimented to find a crop that would help them survive. Tobacco was the crop Jamestown found to help them survive.* Jamestown was able to grow fields and fields of tobacco, but there was not enough people to work the fields. At first, the men of the English working class supplied the labors for the fields. Indentured servants were also brought in to work the fields. But such workers were susceptible to disease and often proved unreliable as they could always choose to leave work behind and return to their people.* In 1619 Jamestown didn 't have enough white people to work the land so they bought about 20 African workers. "For the English people in the New World there was really three labor options. One is to transport people from England to the New World. Another is to employ or exploit the indigenous labor...And the third is to bring people in from Africa."* In 1619 , when Africans were first brought into Britain 's North America they were to be treated as indentured servants. Regardless of color all servants were supposed to be granted freedom after so many years of labor. In 1640 John Punch tried to runaway and his …show more content…
Slavery started out as a small minor issue, but it grew into something huge. It was such a big deal that some colonies would even agree to independence (everyone but Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hancock, and Thompson walked out on signing the Declaration of Independence) because they couldn 't keep their slaves. Majority of the states/colonies would rather stay under a cruel British Monarch than to give up their slaves. The African workers that were brought here as indentured servants ended up becoming