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5 paź 2020 · The first section compares New England colonies to the Chesapeake region to examine the development of the household structure. The second section examines the experiences of children, both free and indentured, and their contribution to a stronger household government.
Within the last ten years a flood of new scholarship has appeared on the social and economic history of the Chesapeake colonies. These studies have analyzed the origins of chattel slavery, slave culture, and distinctive southern family structures among both masters and slaves.
The principal institutions of the family, plantation, and county were recognizable by the 1660s, to which hereditary slavery was added during the 1680s. Regional differences nevertheless emerged between early Virginia and Maryland, and between the Chesapeake's eastern and western shores.
The first English attempt to establish a colony was in 1585 on Roanoke Island, a barrier island belonging in present day North Carolina, southeast of the Chesapeake Bay. The failure of the Roanoke Colony was followed in 1607 by the founding of James Fort (later referred to as the settlement of Jamestowne) on an island in the James River, which ...
Two factors distinguish New England from other English colonies—the influence of religion and a specific social structure. We will examine those key issues and attempt to trace their influence on the political structure of the colonies.
The English stepped in. ‘Chesapeake colonies’ examines how the English colonized certain parts of America and how they dealt with the natives. The ethnocentric English were poorly prepared to understand and accept a culture so different from their own.
Chesapeake settlers were as unstable and transitory as the composition of their families. For the seventeenth century at least, material comforts were few and houses were "impermanent," as surviving colonists chose instead to invest their resources more profitably in land and bonded labor.5
