England Had by Late 1600s Essay

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Moreover, the Quakers turned down New England's request for assistance during the New England-Indian Wars.

The colonists set up an agricultural economy where they grew their own food like corn and wheat. The cattle they raised gave them meat, milk, and butter. They also kept chicken and sheep. The colonists who settled in Pennsylvania came for religious reasons. They wanted religious freedom. Penn branded the Catholic Church as a "Whore of Babylon" and Puritans as "hypocrites and revelers in God." After Penn had written "The Sandy Foundation Shaken" the Bishop of London ordered that he be imprisoned until he recanted his written statements (Anonymous, 2012).

African slaves in the southern colonies like the South and North Carolina worked in the rice field. Some had good knowledge of rice growing having come from rice growing regions in West Africa.

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by, 1708, majority of people of living in the rice growing regions in South Carolina were enslaved Africans. Georgia, the last of the British colonies in America to be established, banned slavery at formative stages. In Virginia, African slaves worked in the fields and any of them who broke their servant contracts were severely punished. In the South, especially Virginia, enslavement of black Africans was legalized (Burke, 2012).

African slaves from the North were allowed to do household and skilled jobs. African slaves in the British colonies of North America during the 1700s finally acclimatized to the new lands by maintaining and preserving many aspects of their African cultures like music, folklore, building styles and clothing. Africans maintained distinctive elements to their religion even after the Great Awakening......

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