1- Slavery in America was not solely created of prejudice as there were other event that played a role in the creation of American Slavery. Slavery was needed in the the Colonies because there was a lack of workers. Workers were needed and Natives weren 't as reliable as African slaves, so the Transatlantic Trade Route was created. with the spread of tobacco growing at high rates someone need to work on the plantations. The work force also shifted to slaves from indentured servants because of Bacon’s Rebellion, where indentured serves revolted and burned Jamestown to the ground. many people did not want another uprising and decided that it would be safer to used slaves instead. Prejudice also made …show more content…
this statement is shown to be true as it is stated that “The work of the farmers’ wives and daughters often spelled the difference between a family;s self-sufficiency and poverty. Most wives were skilled with sewing and were able to make their own fabrics to keep their family clothed and if needed the wife would help the husband with any servile work.
Chapter 4- Slavery, Freedom and the Struggle for Empire to 1763
1- In the eighteenth century the ideas of liberalism and republicanism direr in many ways. within republicanism there was a greater sense of public and social interaction. republicanism also believed in the idea of slavery and most people who followed republicanism owned slaves. With liberalism social interactions were based off of a government who had fair and equal agreements placed. Liberals did not believe in the idea of slavery, but yet some still owned …show more content…
The American Enlightenment and The Great Awakening was a time when many beliefs and new religions were created. As a result of a variety of beliefs and religion there was a separation between people, many people shifted from beliefs of elites rot those of newly created beliefs based off of reason. People began to believe things based off of scientific reason that everything could be proven scientifically, that religion wasn 't the answer to everything. This created political problems because people were branching away from the set political