Question HIST553 History of Colonial America Week 5 Forum Slavery and the African Ordeal As a preface to the required reading for this week, Goetz states, “In recent decades, historians of early North America have explored the emergence of the institution of black chattel slavery. They have also investigated ideas of heritable physical differences and…
Question HIST553 History of Colonial America Week 4 Forum The Coastal Societies In the required reading for this week, Allen notes that, “Resettlement in [Pennsylvania] did not, of course, mean [Quaker] freedom from disease, inequality, or persecution. During Penn’s second visit to the colony in 1700, he discovered that there had been an outbreak of…
Question HIST553 History of Colonial America Week 3 Forum The Chesapeake and Northeast Cultures In the required reading for this week, Nash states, “The English brought no military force comparable to the conquistadores to subjugate the Chesapeake tribes and drive them into agricultural labor. The Anglican Church sent only a handful of clergy to the…
Question HIST553 History of Colonial America Week 6 Forum The Transformation of Euro-American Society and Indian Strategies for Survival In the required reading for this week, Rossel prefaces his thesis by noting, “The period of religious revival falling between the years 1730 and 1745 in Puritan New England is one of extreme change in social…
