Indies

Geertz once said that the tragedy of the colonial people was not that they suffered through the colonial era, but the fact that they suffered for nothing, and he was right. It is true that many of the colonized areas developed more rapidly after the invasion of the Europeans and adopted new Western ideas, but those benefits have no direct relationship with their pain. The colonized people suffered for nothing, because while they developed new public service systems and globalized economy, the…

Alexander Hamilton, George Washington’s Secretary of Treasury, was born in the West Indies. He adopted America as his home country, and contributed many ideas when it came to the creation of the national government. According to The American Pageant: 13th Edition, “Critics claimed Alexander Hamilton was invested in helping the United States as a country succeed more than the United States citizens in general.” Alexander Hamilton was indeed more concerned for the country as a whole than the…

During the age of exploration, the economy of Europe was changed by: mercantilism, the market economy, and most importantly, Capitalism. These three concepts were, and still are, important parts of the economy. Mercantilism is an economic policy by which nations try to gather wealth by establishing colonies and controlling trade. The “age of exploration” was based upon this principle. When Europeans discovered the Americas, they set up colonies in these new worlds. The colonies would mine raw…

of America and the Confederates States of America. The United States would consist of 39 states. The Confederate States of America would be split into the original 11 seceding states plus the entire West Indies because they would have invaded the West Indies and gained the whole entire West Indies through the technique of attrition. The United States would not have claimed Hawaii but they would have claimed Nova Scotia, therefore Hawaii would have been a Philippine Island. The United States…

Zinn does a very good job about attacking the reader from a Native American’s perspective. Zinn uses quotes from Columbus’ own journal and describes to the reader what it was like back then. He quotes, “As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts.” It is obvious that Columbus must have treated them very badly in order to get…

Casa originally took part in the enslaving of the underdeveloped Indians, but soon came to realize it was cruel. "The Apostle of Indies" was a nickname Casa was widely known as, because he fought for the equal treatment. The Spaniard 's were cruel to Natives and treated them no better than slaves, which Bartolome approached the topic in his book "The History of the Indies" and in hindsight created "The Black Legend". Spreading Catholicism was his main goal when arriving in the New World, but…

Capitalism and Slavery In the introduction to his book Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams clearly states, “Here, then, is the origin of Negro slavery. The reason was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color of the laborer, but the cheapness of the labor.” This meant that he was attempting to pursue an understanding of the economic aspects of slavery without the association of morals nor ethics. An argument that is indeed controversial in our now humanitarian-based society. In…

that have already settled amongst the islands that he stumbles upon, which reflect to the reader that they have already been discovered. This letter also elaborates on the various islands that he has encountered during his travels in route to the Indies. He promotes these islands by employing an imagery of the land and all of their beautiful offerings as a persuasion mechanism much like a “trickster” seen in fictional…

by Indians, because it was part of Indian culture to capture slaves from wars. Before 1715 South Carolina’s biggest business was the Indian slave trade and half of South Carolina’s population was comprised of slaves. As with Virginia and the West Indies colonies, South Carolina’s switch to a new crop affected their slavery status. In the early 1700’s when rice became their staple export, South Carolina colonists imported African slaves, causing the Indian slave trade to collapse after 1715.…

contrast to the unique economic and political position of the absentee planters. The Caribbean was still populated by a class of British citizens who managed, operated, and owned slave plantations. Many of these people had resided within the West Indies for generations therefore were deeply entrenched in the local management and politics of the region. Green in his work on the subject describes how these were not colonies that had just developed out of thin air but in fact, “constituted an area…