HIST 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wampum, Lords Proprietor, Great Swamp Fight
6 Jun 2020
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Native americans saw fledgling settlements grow into unstoppable vast new populations that increasingly monopolized resources and remade the land into something else entirely. Colonial societies developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, fluid labor arrangements and racial categories solidified into the race-based, chattel slavery that increasingly defined the economy of the british empire. In 1706, reverend francis le jau quickly grew disillusioned by the horrors of american slavery. Le jau"s strongest complaints were reserved for his own countrymen, the english. English traders encouraged wars with indians in order to purchase and enslave captives, and planters justified the use of an enslaved workforce by claiming white servants were good for nothing at all. The 1660s marked a turning point for black men and women in english colonies. New laws gave legal sanction to the enslavement of people of african descent for life.
