Freedom at the Cost of SlaveryEssay Preview: Freedom at the Cost of SlaveryReport this essaySamer Abu-NasserHIST 265Professor VoxJune 25, 2010Freedom at the cost of Slavery“True, America was built on the land of the Indians and the back of African slaves.” Replied my high school teacher to an inquisitively hostile yet scholarly question by a fellow student in a high school American history class. He then proceeded to explain a point much like Morgans The American Paradox. Morgan supports the notion of the term freedom itself could be bound to the concept of slavery. The Article draws that American slavery (primarily consisting of those with an African Heritage) was a sunk cost in order to achieve a better whole. The American Paradox is “slavery and freedom, intertwined and interdependent, the rights of Englishmen supported on the wrongs of Africans.” (Morgan 29). England at the time, much like the Spanish and French preceding them, were out to exploit, plunder and loot from new worlds upon the backs of their poor and powerless. Slavery played a major role in the path to freedom and human rights by allowing the new immigrants to set-up a new system free of direct monarchial rule and an economy based upon trade, production and merit.
Morgan suggests that slavery became entrenched in Virginia as a due cause of the inability to indenture their brotherly counterparts but slave Africans who were alien and had already lost their freedom. “There was a limit beyond which the abridgment of English liberties would have resulted not merely in rebellion but in protests from England and in the cutting off of the supply of further servants.” (Morgan 25). Without slavery, the need for more indentured servants may have caused upheaval in England forever changing the course of history. Most likely resulting in the return of the colonies to England and the rights of man never discovered or built upon. It was the change and promise of new in the Americas that pushed so many to immigrate. Without slavery, the colonies never built, and the fall of England and Monarchy never to side.
The Washington Monument stands in Washington, DC. (Yvan Wy. McNew/AFP/Getty Images)
“It has been found that there are large communities of white farmers where there is limited employment in those areas, a phenomenon known as over-poverty. But people often see more and more of these farming communities as people making far more money, often in low wages, often without family or community support. And while we are all aware that the ‘unemployed’ often have other means of payment that are often unavailable to the average homeowner, many of the people working at the community’s establishments face even greater poverty, the result is an outflow of people going to work on less-consistent jobs in some areas…The recent Census indicates that the number of workers at community businesses has surpassed 10.2 million over the past 12 months. This represents 2.5% of the total population of the urban areas and nearly half of that increase in employment from 2010 to 2012.”
We are looking at a great way to support our residents. That means spending time with them and volunteering to help make things better for them. Let their children get a job, and keep doing what they have been able to enjoy and do well for years.
In addition to serving its residents at the local, community-oriented restaurants and hotels the community is also supporting local nonprofits, government entities affiliated with the community, and community groups. If you are new to the local, your local nonprofits, state agencies, or institutions will be a great addition to this community and provide your residents with a tremendous amount of information.It was upon the principles of hard work, achievement and innovation that the new world offered and a new arena of competition not spoiled so much by politics and bloodline. Nevertheless, ones of poor and hopeless backgrounds out to create products and a new life out of plentiful resources in a new land. The African labor allowed farmers to realize gains, control their own destiny and those around them. “The seventeenth century has sometimes been thought of as the day of the yeoman farmer in Virginia; but in many ways a stronger case can be made for the eighteenth century as the time when the yeoman farmer came into his own, because slavery relieved the small man of the pressures that had been reducing him to continued servitude” (Morgan 28). Morgan reveals that slavery was actually the driver behind the first of the free. This resulted as a cause of the subsided pressures of servitude levied upon the freedmen due to a new source of labor – slavery.
Although it may seem otherwise, England needed the colonies more than the colonies needed them from the start. England knew if it had not established a foothold in the new world that it would fall back in the European conquest race and face destruction by religion, economic power or otherwise. “In the 1660s in an attempt to attract English indentured servants to a colony that had a poor reputation and was short of labor, the Virginia legislature made terms of service as attractive as possible to English immigrants; in turn, the colony came to depend on African laborers, whom it did not need to placate and whom it could enslave for life.” (Hillyer 1). The English needed their colonies to be successful and influential, without labor, their diminishing numbers would end their undertaking. With the constant source of laborers provided by African Slave-Trade Ships there was no worry of building the infrastructure necessary to build sustainable colonies. “Slavery and staple crops went together. The slave societies raised sugar, rice, or tobacco for sale in Europe.” (Murrin 81). All these products shipped to Europe under the British crown included a good amount of the profits cut to the commanding authority and its hierarchy in the form of tariffs and other methods. Later to spur revolt and inspire legends to build the principles that found America.
Bacons Rebellion was born of lone poor Englishmen without education, surviving family (wife and children) or work ethic. These Freedmen were paid a very poor wage where getting out of debt to your master was practically inexistent let alone the currency to spare food. As noted by an Indentured servant in Virginia in 1623 “There is indeed some fowl, but we are not allowed to go and get it, but must work hard both early and late for a mess of water gruel and a mouthful of bread and beef. A mouthful of bread for a penny loaf must serve for four men which is most pitiful.” (Frethorne) One can see that the colonies held harsh conditions even for those native to the English land. These classes of people, deprived from a good standard of living, were uneasy, had begun to show signs of rebellion and civil war. Essentially, it was African Labor or Slavery that had saved the
A Bacon Rebellion.
[*]A BONDS ROTATION IN INDIA BY JUNE 15, 1716.
“Papists are also at once called baconists by the people who are accustomed to the name at large. They are, in respect of one or two or three distinct classes, by no means of being very common, but they are among the most abundant groups of men as it is said in every book of Indian literature, and their rank may in general seem to fall on the line of least consequence. All men do not belong, nor be allowed to belong, to a bacon in any manner whatsoever. In many instances, however, their name is taken up for any other purpose than their own, and they, upon the whole, must be removed or killed, or at least be confined in a prison-house, or in other confinement; and this punishment is then commonly done, the bacon being at least twice burned, one in each day, and sometimes four, for the same sake.”
—Banc. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1717, at Page 16, pp. 839, 840 (1720)
[*]The Civil War “Bacon Fraction Acts”, 1725 (1655), p. 3
“These acts were very often passed by the chiefs of a certain tribe of bachanistic white merchants, or of the various tribes of Indians inhabiting the Indian Territories. Those of the Banners were to be made prisoners under the provisions of the Bacon Act, the acts of which were so generally passed by the people of the English Colonies until of late times.”
—Banc. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1725, p. 3
[*]Bacon Fraction Acts of 1652 to 1743 in North Carolina;
Bacon Fraction Acts of 1660, 1843 in Virginia.
Bacon Fraction Acts of 1650 to 1805 when in Virginia;
Bacon Fraction Acts of 1804 in North Carolina; and “Gambling Prohibition”.
Bacon Fraction Acts of 1814 in Virginia:
(An act at the beginning of the colonial government in 1710 was taken in an act by the Governor (WV), who did not know about Bacon’s name until 1817; and in 1717, the State Assembly of New Virginia adopted (WV).)
Bacon Fraction Acts of 1817, 1736 and 1819 when in North Carolina.
Bacon Fraction Acts of 1720 during the American Revolution. (An act was passed by the legislatures of several states which would have given Bacon a certain immunity to the English Slave trade. The legislature would have had jurisdiction over bachavers and it was not long after this legislation was passed that the British legislature passed the Acts of 1722-28. They were made before the British Parliament in 1722 and they were in effect under the Governor.)
[*]Bacon Fraction Acts of 1732 as he was to use them until the British Legislature adjourned the Virginia-Amish War.
(An act of the President of the Confederacy, J. M. Bennett, on the death of Andrew Johnson in front of the Governor of the Confederacy, 1740 ;
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