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    Berkeley traded with Indians even though colonists disliked the Indians. Nathaniel Bacon, a noble man, always possessed status but when he could not compete with Berkeley he sought another way to become more powerful. Bacon with supporters like indentured servants, middle class and lower-class individuals, who were against Berkeley’s rule. William Berkeley and Nathaniel Bacon were two selfish…

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    slave-labor system in the labor-intensive agriculture world of the American South and the Caribbean was more profitable than a free-labor system." (Doc. 4). At one point planters hired former indentured servants who would work for very little money but there were drawbacks entreprenuerally to this. Indentured servants cost very little to employ but they still cost more in the long run than owning slaves. They were also quite unpreditable and hard to control as their multiple revolts had proved…

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    The colony had become a safe haven for Catholic persecuted in England however; tensions ran high when the Protestant planters began to resent Catholic landlords. In the hopes of protecting the Catholics of the region, Lord Baltimore II signed the Act of Toleration in 1649. The Act would actually put more of a limit on religious freedom as it stipulated the death penalty to those settlers who denied the divinity of Jesus. Georgia - reasons for development- Georgia was developed to serve as a…

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    of course). I thought this was pretty trustworthy source, but I am aware that the information came from an UNtrustworthy person, Mary Burton. The excerpt stated that one of the people Mary accused was none other than her master. Mary was an indentured servant, a person who had to pay for his voyage by working for a few years under a master, and it was likely that she accused John Hughson…

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    Slaves and Servants, Blacks and Whites The way of living changed for many when the new world was discovered. Daily life consisted of blacks and whites everywhere, however consciously people were aware of everyones standings socially and economically which is what separated them. People’s lives consisted mostly of severents and slaves being around them. Throughout the two articles: The Anxious World of Slaveowning Patriarch written by Kathleen M. Brown and The Effects Of Paternalism Among Whites…

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    In the Preface of the textbook, Give Me Liberty!, the author Eric Foner draws attention to three key points about the concept of freedom and its importance in American history. The three points are “the meanings of freedom, the social conditions that make freedom possible, and the boundaries of freedom that determine who is entitled to enjoy freedom and who is not”. Foner’s concept of freedom address that freedom is more than one variable. Over the years as America grew and change to be what it…

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    Keeping slaves was more expensive than hiring indentured servants, and tobacco workers died at alarmingly high rates, making paying for a lifetime of labor seem inefficient. The spur of tobacco cultivation created a continuous demand for workers that turned European nations to increasing reliance on slave…

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    slaves were brought to Jamestown, Va to help aid with the production of Tobacco. Back then they weren’t called slaves, but indentured servants and worked for the farmers for 7 years due to the colony not having a code for slaves. When their 7 years were up they set free and given land. As exports became more valuable farmers became hesitant about letting their indentured servants go. Slavery didn’t become legalized until 1645 it was then that Africans were no longer considered human beings but…

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    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…

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    Virginians progressed into a more complex society, with aristocratic affluent planters at the top of the social pyramid, yeomen farmers next, then indentured servants and black slaves. However, Massachusetts had chosen social equality, with the "elect" as the most respected and powerful group. Their society cared about kinship, while Virginia was full of roaming landless freedmen. These societal variations…

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