Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution

Natives and Slaves of Colonial America (1x4)

Udgivelsesdato: Mar 22, 2022

The natives succumbed to disease and warfare, plunging to only one-tenth of the number living in 1492. Meanwhile, colonial land ownership, and participation in self-government, was spread more widely in New England than in the Mid-Atlantic; conversely, slavery was most economically feasible in the labor-intensive plantations of the Chesapeake Bay region and points farther south.