Colonial Differences In Latin America And North America

While Latin American colonies and North American colonies differed in indigenuos peoples and their interactions, they were similar in their need for slave labor. Interactions between the natives, slaves, and Europeans were also different. In Latin America, many men had relations with native and slave women, eventually some married the natives. This caused a new social order to develop between the people in Latin American colonies, dividing everyone based on race, with titles such as mestizo, mulattoes, and zambos. In North American colonies, such relationships were frowned upon and were rare, but some mixing of the cultures occurred. The cause of this difference is due to the amount of women brought during the voyage, because the lack of many women in Latin America led to a mixed society, while in North American colonies women were brought to help settle in with the area. The size and organization of indigenous groups were different between the Latin and North American colonies. Indigenous groups in Latin America, like the Aztecs and Mayans, were larger than the groups in North America. Latin America had many structured and wealthy …show more content…
Labor in the Northern colonies was hard on the hands and eyes. In the Latin colonies the labor required to produce sugar was life threatening and intense. They had to use machetes to chop the plant down, then put the plant in a gigantic boiling pot within a few hours or it was rendered useless. African slaves were needed in the Northern colonies because the natives were dying from diseases and in Latin American colonies the Europeans couldn’t control the nomadic natives and force them stay to make the Spaniards a profit. This similarity exists, because the Europeans disinterest in physical labor and paying for employees led them to go the preexisting slave trade center in Africa to pay to separate families so they can have some cotton and