{"id":476,"date":"2015-06-10T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/americanyawp\/?post_type=chapter&p=476"},"modified":"2015-06-19T22:27:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:27:20","slug":"introduction-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ushistory1ay\/chapter\/introduction-2\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction","rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"raw":"
\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1358\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1000\"]\"A<\/a> Unidentified artist, \u201cThe Old Plantation,\u201d ca. 1790-1800, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, via Wikimedia<\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nWhether they came as servants, slaves, free farmers, religious refugees, or powerful planters, the men and women of the American colonies created new worlds. Native Americans saw fledgling settlements turned into unstoppable beachheads of vast new populations that\u00a0increasingly monopolized resources and remade\u00a0the land into something else entirely.\u00a0Meanwhile, as colonial societies developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, fluid labor arrangements and racial categories solidified into the race-based, chattel slavery that increasingly defined\u00a0the economy of the British Empire. The North American mainland originally occupied\u00a0a small and marginal place in that broad empire, as even the output of its most prosperous colonies paled before the tremendous wealth of Caribbean sugar islands. And yet the colonial backwaters on\u00a0the North American mainland, ignored by many imperial officials, were nevertheless deeply tied into these larger Atlantic networks. The Atlantic World\u00a0connected the continents of Europe, Africa, and the Americas.\r\n\r\nEvents across the ocean continued to influence the lives of American colonists.\u00a0Civil war, religious conflict, and nation building wracked seventeenth-century Britain and remade societies on both sides of the ocean. And at the same time,\u00a0colonial settlements grew and matured and developed into powerful societies capable of warring against Native Americans and subduing internal upheaval. Patterns established during the colonial era\u00a0would echo for centuries. And none, perhaps, would be so brutal and so destructive as American slavery.","rendered":"
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Unidentified artist, \u201cThe Old Plantation,\u201d ca. 1790-1800, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, via Wikimedia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Whether they came as servants, slaves, free farmers, religious refugees, or powerful planters, the men and women of the American colonies created new worlds. Native Americans saw fledgling settlements turned into unstoppable beachheads of vast new populations that\u00a0increasingly monopolized resources and remade\u00a0the land into something else entirely.\u00a0Meanwhile, as colonial societies developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, fluid labor arrangements and racial categories solidified into the race-based, chattel slavery that increasingly defined\u00a0the economy of the British Empire. The North American mainland originally occupied\u00a0a small and marginal place in that broad empire, as even the output of its most prosperous colonies paled before the tremendous wealth of Caribbean sugar islands. And yet the colonial backwaters on\u00a0the North American mainland, ignored by many imperial officials, were nevertheless deeply tied into these larger Atlantic networks. The Atlantic World\u00a0connected the continents of Europe, Africa, and the Americas.<\/p>\n

Events across the ocean continued to influence the lives of American colonists.\u00a0Civil war, religious conflict, and nation building wracked seventeenth-century Britain and remade societies on both sides of the ocean. And at the same time,\u00a0colonial settlements grew and matured and developed into powerful societies capable of warring against Native Americans and subduing internal upheaval. Patterns established during the colonial era\u00a0would echo for centuries. And none, perhaps, would be so brutal and so destructive as American slavery.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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