Summary of Peter H. Wood's 'Strange New Land': Chapters 1-4
Brittany Reese
History 1111-03
Strange New Land
Chapters 1-4 The purpose of this book
The book starts off by explaining about how a fence, New York City that was built to protect the Colonial settlement against the French and Indian raiders. Dutch Village of New Amsterdam was an expanding town in Manhattan Island that guarded homes, gardens, and churchyards. A graveyard, north from this town, stood, that was assigned to African Americans that’s labeled, “Negros Burial Ground.” In 1990 the city of New York sold the burial ground for African American to the government to use as an office building, not knowing what was underneath. Scientist, from Howard University, formed a team to examine the graveyard in 1992, finding 420 remains of men, women, and children. A black musician, Noel Pointer, teamed with local groups to collect more than 100,000 signatures on a petition seeking landmarks status for the burial ground. Suffering from pain and not seeing thoughtful promises, the black heritage, in Colonial America, searched for a safe arrival and seeks help for survival in the strange new land.
Chapter one shows how different cultures took advantage of not only African Americans, but Native Americans as well. Native Americans were invaded by Spanish settlers, taken into slavery and forced to live with harsh living conditions. Settlers exposed them to a vast number of diseases, and tricked other Native Americans into agreements, in which they were starved, made to live in the cold, and which ultimately led to the death of many of them. Native Americans were resistant to being overtaken and fought back to protect their people and their land. Spanish conquerors like Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon sent out to find laborers. He landed off the coast of South Carolina in hopes of finding a location to start a colony. During his search, he found that Europeans practiced Christianity and did not believe in exploiting their people. A groups resisted, they looked to other
History 1111-03
Strange New Land
Chapters 1-4 The purpose of this book
The book starts off by explaining about how a fence, New York City that was built to protect the Colonial settlement against the French and Indian raiders. Dutch Village of New Amsterdam was an expanding town in Manhattan Island that guarded homes, gardens, and churchyards. A graveyard, north from this town, stood, that was assigned to African Americans that’s labeled, “Negros Burial Ground.” In 1990 the city of New York sold the burial ground for African American to the government to use as an office building, not knowing what was underneath. Scientist, from Howard University, formed a team to examine the graveyard in 1992, finding 420 remains of men, women, and children. A black musician, Noel Pointer, teamed with local groups to collect more than 100,000 signatures on a petition seeking landmarks status for the burial ground. Suffering from pain and not seeing thoughtful promises, the black heritage, in Colonial America, searched for a safe arrival and seeks help for survival in the strange new land.
Chapter one shows how different cultures took advantage of not only African Americans, but Native Americans as well. Native Americans were invaded by Spanish settlers, taken into slavery and forced to live with harsh living conditions. Settlers exposed them to a vast number of diseases, and tricked other Native Americans into agreements, in which they were starved, made to live in the cold, and which ultimately led to the death of many of them. Native Americans were resistant to being overtaken and fought back to protect their people and their land. Spanish conquerors like Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon sent out to find laborers. He landed off the coast of South Carolina in hopes of finding a location to start a colony. During his search, he found that Europeans practiced Christianity and did not believe in exploiting their people. A groups resisted, they looked to other