AMS 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: William Byrd Ii, Cash Crop
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Encouraged a sense of laziness as opposed to the work ethic of the people spread out along the rivers. Weren"t motivated to work hard, and many had no experience in. Relied a lot of labor (e. g. for tobacco plantations) on indentured servants, huge influx of servants that contributed to the sense of disorder, pressing on the frontier, . Full of single men, very few women and families. Criticisms of virginians and southerners as lazy . Problems of governance and social control on the frontier. When the problem with the disorder in the society came to a head. Report of rev. charles woodmason re. western carolinas 1760s torture. Situation was totally lawless. rape and pillaging, robberies, kidnapping, Solutions to perceived laziness and lack of social control. Southern colonists had a pervading fear of reverting to barbarism, fear of becoming like their perception of the native people. fear of society sliding into chaos. desire for social control.
