The cold, muddy ground surrounds our bare feet as we plant the crops for our land owner. Day after day planting crops on this farm and yet there is no money towards us. Long tracts of land separate us from other farms as the climate is great for farming. As our owner and others owns most of the political power in the Southern Colonies. “Hey Sam, I have an idea on a way to escape the Southern Colonies,” I exclaimed.
“Ok Jake,” uttered Sam ,“But how in the world are we going to escape from being slaves.”
“Well it’s kind of confusing, but I guess I can tell you” I replied, “So you know there is a shipbuilder in the New England Colonies ?”
Sam continued “Yes.”
I told,“Well Sam see we need to get to the shipbuilder by shooting our way out of this heavily guarded farm with muskets we steal.”
“What are you even talking about” Sam said, “That plan is way to crazy to be executed.”
“Sam I'm going to tell Bob about our escape so he could come with us,” I muttered.
The cold, crisp night came and I was about to go to bed as a guard takes Bob out of his hut. I quickly woke up Sam and told him that Bob was taken into the guard’s interrogation room. Sam and I snuck by the area to see what was happening.
Once we got there the guards had stabbed Bob in
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In the New England Colonies the soil was very stoney for farming so instead they used the timber for shipbuilding and had fishing as a resource for food. The colonists also built bays for ships to trade with. Once we got to the shipbuilder, we had to sneak into a big enough boat for the ten other slaves that made it. Once Sam I saw a big enough ship we waited until nightfall so it would be easier to sneak onto. Night came and the shipbuilder left, a and only one slave knew how to captain the ship and that was Sam.Once all the slaves snuck in the boat and I told Sam “Let’s go home to
In “Antebellum Southern Exceptionalism: A New Look at an Old Question” James McPherson argues that the North and the South are two very different parts of the country in which have different ideologies, interests, and values. Mcpherson writes this to show the differences between the north and the south. He gives perspectives from other historians to show how the differently the differences were viewed. These differences included the north being more industrialized while the south was more agricultural. He gives evidence to how the differences between the north and south came together as the south produced tobacoo, rice, sugar and cotton, which was then sent to the north to be made into clothing or other fabrics. Mcpherson analyzes the differences
George the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, King, Defender of the Faith, I write to thee from the heart of South Carolina, Charleston to impart my knowledge of the region. My travels have been long and arduous. I arrived by way of a freight ship bearing finished goods for the colony on the twenty-eighth day of March, in the twenty-third year of thy reign. All that province, territory, or tract of ground, called South Carolina, lying and being within our dominions of America is well.
Imagine a historian, author of an award-winning dissertation and several books. He is an experienced lecturer and respected scholar; he is at the forefront of his field. His research methodology sets the bar for other academicians. He is so highly esteemed, in fact, that an article he has prepared is to be presented to and discussed by the United States’ oldest and largest society of professional historians. These are precisely the circumstances in which Ulrich B. Phillips wrote his 1928 essay, “The Central Theme of Southern History.” In this treatise he set forth a thesis which on its face is not revolutionary: that the cause behind which the South stood unified was not slavery, as such, but white supremacy. Over the course of fourteen elegantly written pages, Phillips advances his thesis with evidence from a variety of primary sources gleaned from his years of research. All of his reasoning and experience add weight to his distillation of Southern history into this one fairly simple idea, an idea so deceptively simple that it invites further study.
American Colonies: Contrasting the New England and Southern Colonists The New England and Southern Colonies were both settled largely by the English. By 1700, the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. The southern colonies have characteristics that are the antithesis of the New England colonies attributes. New England was colonized for Freedom of Worship and freedom of political thought.
the pre-Civil War era, only about 5 percent of white Southern women actually lived on plantations and about half the Southern households owned no slaves at all. Still, slavery defined everything about life in the South, including the status of white women. Southern culture orbited around the strong father figure, simultaneously ruling and caring for his dependents - Mary Hamilton Campbell was struck when her servant Eliza refererred to Campbell's husband as "our master". Black and white women never seemed to develop any sense of common cause, but every Southern female from the plantation wife to the field slave was assinged a role that involved powerlessness and the need of a white man's constant guidance. A Southern slave owner named George Balcombe advised a friend to "Let women and Negroes alone. Leave them in their humility, their grateful affection, ther self-renouncing loyalty, their subordination of the heart, and let it be your study to become worthy to be the object of their sentiments."
One of the most dramatic similarities between Sarah Ashley’s story and our textbook was the slave experience of working the fields of a plantation. According to Deverell and White (424), “most plantation owners used the gang-labor system”. Sarah Ashley’s story underscores the gang-labor system of work by stating, “slaves pick 300 to 800 pound cotton and have to tote the bag the whole mile to the gin”. This is an example of how the
Everybody has something they feel that makes their lives easier, something a person becomes so accustomed to they could not live without it. This is what African slaves were to the Southern colonists. Slavery was a huge factor in the Southerner’s lives. Originally the colonists used indentured servants to work in their homes and on their plantations. This situation was not ideal because the Southern farmers wanted more control over their workers (orange). Virginian farmers heard about the success of slavery in the Caribbean and thought it would be a good solution to their problems (blue). The southern colonists had a very different way of earning a living than in the north. They needed people to work through “the harsh realities of a land-rich, but labor-scarce economy…” (Purple). The plantation owners had all the land and resources, but no one to work on their grounds long term. Throughout the years 1607-1775, slavery rose as an important contributor to the South’s economy due to social, geographic and economic aspects.
Venture Smith’s narrating of his experiences in the revolting slavery system of the 1700’s, serves as a valuable primary source. Smith’s retelling of his experience
... me no choice. That blacksmith is my friend, so I have to kill you. It does not matter that people will come looking for you because I will not be here,” Finishing his sentence with a gunshot.
Southern culture and history has many intriguing topics to learn about. During the duration of this American studies course my knowledge about the southern culture and region has grown intellectually. Being born and raised in the South was an advantage for me learning about certain topics because there was a direct correlation between the information and my upbringing. The material taught in this class provided good insight on historical events that have ties with southern culture such as: College mascots, Antebellum era, and the Confederate flag. Those three topics enhanced my knowledge about the Southern culture and history because each contributed to the south that individuals know of today.
“What do they want? This is our territory. What were they doing this far east?” Ponyboy complains. I could barely hear him. I was too focused on the five black figures in the Mustang ready to beat us up until we looked like two malnourished cats.
After the devastation left from the Civil War, many field owners looked for new ways to replace their former slaves with field hands for farming and production use. From this need for new field hands came sharecroppers, a “response to the destitution and disorganized” agricultural results of the Civil War (Wilson 29). Sharecropping is the working of a piece of land by a tenant in exchange for a portion of the crops that they bring in for their landowners. These farmhands provided their labor, while the landowners provided living accommodations for the worker and his family, along with tools, seeds, fertilizers, and a portion of the crops that they had harvested that season. A sharecropper had “no entitlement to the land that he cultivated,” and was forced “to work under any conditions” that his landowner enforced (Wilson 798). Many landowners viewed sharecropping as a way to elude the now barred possession of slaves while still maintaining field hands for labor in an inexpensive and ample manner. The landowners watched over the sharecroppers and their every move diligently, with harsh supervision, and pressed the sharecroppers to their limits, both mentally and physically. Not only were the sharecroppers just given an average of one-fourth of their harvest, they had “one of the most inadequate incomes in the United States, rarely surpassing more than a few hundred dollars” annually (Wilson 30). Under such trying conditions, it is not hard to see why the sharecroppers struggled to maintain a healthy and happy life, if that could even be achieved. Due to substandard conditions concerning sharecropper’s clothing, insufficient food supplies, and hazardous health issues, sharecroppers competed on the daily basis to stay alive on what little their landowners had to offer them.
“Lesson Sixteen: Creating a New South- The New South,” New Frontiers for the Nation, http://web3.unt.edu/cdl/course_projects/HIST2610/content/05_Unit_Five/16_lesson_sixteen/00_unit_five_lesson_sixteen.htm
The northern colonies badly needed the services their isolation denied them. The people needed doctors and surgeons and carpenters and blacksmiths. And although they could survive without many of the manufactured goods available only at high prices, they dreamed of owning these things. They dreamed also of luxury items-perfume, spices, silk cloth.
“I hope you have a plan genius!”, Heidi growled over her shoulder, her guns still aimed towards the enemy's chest. The military had the two surrounded, and Heidi had a rapidly growing resentment for Wyatt for getting her into the mess to begin with.