*INTRODUCTION*
The year between 1603 and 1714 we're the most decisive in the English history. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the great Britain emerges and it was many was the world super power. It then passed the baton to it's revolting spawn, the United States, which has carried global dominance into the present century.
There are several reasons for this stunning turnabout . Yet any explanation that elides slavery b, colonialism and the emerging capitalism, along with their medium.Roughly two to four million Native Americans also were captured and enslaved band traded by European settlers in the Americas,. English and scots not least.
Though diseases, spread by these Interlopers is often trotted out to explain the spectacular downturn in the fortunes of indigenous Americans, genocide - in virtually every meaning of the terms.
*ISSUES WITH NATIVE AMERICANS*
_I wish their experience was equal to mine , and that your love to us might not be less than ours to you. Why should you take by force that from us which you can have by love? Why should you destroy us who have provided you with food? What can you get by war? We can hide our provisions and fly into the woods and then you must consequently farnish by wrong doing your friends. (Address to Captain Johnson)_
Colonial America was a vast land settled by Spanish, Dutch, French and English immigrants who established colonies such as St. Augustine, Florida ; Jamestown, Virginia and present-day North Carolina. As the European sought to control newly settled America land wars broke out between the Native indigenous Americans and the men of the Europeans who encroached in their territory, resources and trade.
Over time, the relationship that existed between the now-established colonies and the local peoples deteriorated. Some of the problems were unintentionally introduced by the colonists, which includes diseases like smallpox and other infections that the English settlers had unwittingly brought over on their ships. Although the colonists suffered diseases of their own early on, they were largely immune to the microbes they brought over to the New World. The local Native American populations, however, had no such immunity to diseases like smallpox, tuberculosis, measles, cholera, and the bubonic plague.
As the Colonist-Native meAmerican relationship worsened over the course of the 17th century, resulting in a bloody conflict known as the First Indian War. In 1675, the government of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts executed three members of the Wampanoag people.
The war lasted 14 months, ending in late 1676 after much of the Native American opposition had been destroyed by the colonial militias and their Native American allies. Ultimately, a treaty was signed in April 1678, ending the conflict.
With such massive casualties on both sides, this war is considered one of the toughest and deadliest conflicts in American history. Both sides experienced devastating losses, with the Native American population losing thousands of people to war, illness, slavery, or fleeing to other regions. More than 500 colonists died in the course of the conflict, with dozens of settlements destroyed.
*ECONOMIC ROOTS IN SLAVERY*
Throughout history before colonial America, slavery has existed where it has been economically precious to those in power. The master enjoyed rates of return in slavery comparable to those on other assets.
In the early 1700s, the population in the colonies had reached 250,000; by 1750, over a million British migrants and African slaves had established a near-continuous zone of settlement on the Atlantic coast from Maine to Georgia. By the mid-18th century, the 13 original New England, Middle, Chesapeake, and Southern colonies had all been established.
Virginia would be known as the first British colony to legally establish slavery in 1661. And a few other colonies were soon to follow.
Throughout history , from 1500 to 1900 , approximately 12 million slaves were forced from their home and about 10 million of them completed the journey. Not long after Columbus set sail for the New World, many of them brought slaves with them on various occasions. Slavery formed a cornerstone of the British Empire in the 18th century.
The European demand for New World cash crops lead to a demand for labour to cultivate these crops. Every colony had slaves from the southern rice plantations to the northern colonies. Although , the practice and the enslavement of the Native Americans was already in place, planters in the southern British colony quickly come favor the Africans, as they are immune to some of the new world diseases brought by the British and they exhibited special skills. and husbandry making them a more preferred choice. Slavery and the Africa slave trade quickly transform into a building block of the colonial economy and it's as medium of expanding and developing the British commercial empire in the Atlantic World.
*CONCLUSION*
The colonial America was a vast land settled by Spanish, Dutch, French, and the English immigrants who established colonies, they brought changes to virtually every aspect of the land and it's people from trade to hunting to warfare and personal property. The development of the Atlantic Slave trade changed the course of European settlement in the Americas.
*REFERENCE*
James I, Jamestown Charter, 1606 (Links to an external site.)
London Company, Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606 (Links to an external site.)
Chief Powhatan, Address to Captain John Smith, 1609 (Links to an external site.)
William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620 (Links to an external site.)
Virginia Company, An Ordinance and Constitution for a Council of State and General Assembly, 1621 (Links to an external site.)
Charles I, Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629 (Links to an external site.)
John Winthrop, A City on a Hill, 1630 (Links to an external site.)
Colony of Maryland, The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649 (Links to an external site.)
Robert Horne, Recruiting Settlers to Carolina, 1666 (Links to an external site.)
Colony of Massachusetts, The First Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1676 (Links to an external site.)
Francis Daniel Pastorius, Ocean Voyage, 1684 (Links to an external site.)
Robert Beverley, Bacon's Rebellion, 1704 (Links to an external site.)
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