In the 17th and 18th century, promotional literature was used to emphasize the economic opportunities available in the English Colonies. Inspired and profit driven, men and women fled to the Americas with the mindset that would soon shape the country. By looking at T.H. Breen, “Looking Out for Number One: Conflicting Cultural Values in Early Seventeenth Century Virginia” and John Butler, “The Evolution of Slavery in Colonial America,” I argue the master-slave relationship became socially, culturally, and legally formalized in the early English Colonies.
Owning slaves in the English Colonies was not only socially accepted, but expected. Word got to England that indentured servants were being mistreated in America inducing a decline in the immigration of servants therefore, provoking a rush in slaveholding. Jon Butler’s article, “The Evolution of Slavery in Colonial America” mentions by the 1690s at mid-century fifteen percent of the colonies population consisted of African Slaves. (Butler, page 60) “by the first decade of the eighteenth century, then, captured Africans outstripped indentured servants by a ratio of at least 6-1 and established a pattern of colonial labor consumption not broken until the American Revolution.” These numbers, in the …show more content…
Its significance, whites saw no flaws in their actions towards Africans. Africans were treated with cruelty and no respect. In return, Africans appropriately grew to resent the “superior” race, after all the colonies ever did to them was tear them away from their families, promise a life if misery and ridiculed them, leading to a divide in the country that would soon become too momentous to
Owning slaves in the English Colonies was not only socially accepted, but expected. Word got to England that indentured servants were being mistreated in America inducing a decline in the immigration of servants therefore, provoking a rush in slaveholding. Jon Butler’s article, “The Evolution of Slavery in Colonial America” mentions by the 1690s at mid-century fifteen percent of the colonies population consisted of African Slaves. (Butler, page 60) “by the first decade of the eighteenth century, then, captured Africans outstripped indentured servants by a ratio of at least 6-1 and established a pattern of colonial labor consumption not broken until the American Revolution.” These numbers, in the …show more content…
Its significance, whites saw no flaws in their actions towards Africans. Africans were treated with cruelty and no respect. In return, Africans appropriately grew to resent the “superior” race, after all the colonies ever did to them was tear them away from their families, promise a life if misery and ridiculed them, leading to a divide in the country that would soon become too momentous to