HIST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Slavery In The United States, Powhatan, Local Natives
22 Dec 2015
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1. the founding of jamestown: rise of tobacco, turn to african slavery, economic uses of slaves, slavery and the american revolution, the cotton kingdom, slave christianity, slave family, slave resistance. Terms: john rolfe; quakers; eli whitney; louisiana purchase 1803; great. 1607 virginia company of london sends 144 settlers who establish settlement of. Founding of jamestown: why do early settlers refuse to grow crops, focus effort on finding gold like spanish since profit was at heart of settlement not creating permanent colony. 2)lack of farmers on early ships (mostly businessmen, artisans) 3)high proportion of nobles who saw work as below their social status. 4)believed from spanish experience that natives could easily support them with food surpluses. Colony is on verge of starvation and anarchy so capt. John smith is elected leader and he imposes incredibly harsh violent martial law regime. Smith tries to curb violence with local natives of the powhatan confederacy of tribes.
