HST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Atlantic Slave Trade, George Whitefield, Slavs
16 Sep 2016
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Similarities of new england, the south, and the middle colonies. Colonists have better social mobility and political liberty -> due to more available land. Social hierarchies: wealthy upper class (small)-> 2% of the population, 70% of the land, middle class (large)-> 50%, underclass comprised of servants, slaves, and poor farmers (large) -> 40% Self-government doesn"t translate into democracy (by today"s standards) Long-serving political elite will establish itself in every colony. 2nd/3rd generation puritans were less pious (this idea is contested by some) >extramarital sex, drink: commercialization dilutes the hold of religion -> historians argues that. The hold of the church declined and was funneled into compulsive capitalist entrepeurialiship : rejection of authoritarianism/rigidity of the puritan fathers". Church attendance was particularly low in the south -> due to distances between people. Religious movement with an evangelical message sparking a spiritual renewal in the 13 colonies (happening in europe as well)
