Topic One: Population & Immigration In the thirteen colonies in America during the early to mid 1700s, there were the New England colonies, Middle colonies and Southern colonies. There was also a large population growth. The people moved to the colonies that best fit the travelers religion, lifestyle, and where land was available. These people had different ways of life and thinking. The New England colonies consisted of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire in 1730. The people that lived in the New England Colonies were very spiritual and were Pilgrims and Puritans. These people were also focused on economic growth. These colonies had a total population of 217,000 people. By 1750, the New England colonies had a population
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Eventually, there were laws set in place that protected the servants and gave them rights so that they would not be overworked and treated inhumanely. As time went on, the people that owned had servants moved to owning Africans as slaves because it was cheaper and the Africans wouldn't have a higher standard of living because they were considered property.The comparison to African slavery is that, living conditions for the Africans were much more worse and extreme and was not …show more content…
During the 1700s slavery became justified for many reasons. Firstly, owning slaves was a very common thing because in the early 1700s there were only 28,000 African slaves. By 1750, there were 100,000 slaves in Virginia alone. Secondly, slavery became popular because the law said that slave owners could maim, kill, beat, punish etc. slaves because they were considered property. Slave owners could not do this to indentured servants because there were laws against a servant being treated harshly.
For the Middle class, slavery was well needed and considered normal. African slavery gave the Middle class a sense of elitism because the Middle class could own people and receive work for a small investment. Also the Middle Class were very religious, and can be considered as fundamentalist. All three groups of the thirteen colonies contained some form of Christianity. With misinterpretations of the bible, people found it better to own black slaves because the bible said that black was sinister and evil, and that black was the color of the devil. On the other hand, Europeans believed that white was the color of purity and the white people had the mentality of being better than others. Slavery was very common and was rarely frowned upon. George Washington, Ben Franklin and even Abraham Lincoln owned slaves. The New England region did not need and not really
Eventually, there were laws set in place that protected the servants and gave them rights so that they would not be overworked and treated inhumanely. As time went on, the people that owned had servants moved to owning Africans as slaves because it was cheaper and the Africans wouldn't have a higher standard of living because they were considered property.The comparison to African slavery is that, living conditions for the Africans were much more worse and extreme and was not …show more content…
During the 1700s slavery became justified for many reasons. Firstly, owning slaves was a very common thing because in the early 1700s there were only 28,000 African slaves. By 1750, there were 100,000 slaves in Virginia alone. Secondly, slavery became popular because the law said that slave owners could maim, kill, beat, punish etc. slaves because they were considered property. Slave owners could not do this to indentured servants because there were laws against a servant being treated harshly.
For the Middle class, slavery was well needed and considered normal. African slavery gave the Middle class a sense of elitism because the Middle class could own people and receive work for a small investment. Also the Middle Class were very religious, and can be considered as fundamentalist. All three groups of the thirteen colonies contained some form of Christianity. With misinterpretations of the bible, people found it better to own black slaves because the bible said that black was sinister and evil, and that black was the color of the devil. On the other hand, Europeans believed that white was the color of purity and the white people had the mentality of being better than others. Slavery was very common and was rarely frowned upon. George Washington, Ben Franklin and even Abraham Lincoln owned slaves. The New England region did not need and not really