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1 Rutgers University Yusuf Sarii U.S. Labor & work 2/20/2021 James Horn: Jamestown and the Forging of American democracy An exceptional year in which American independence and American slavery come together in a hot spell in was in the middle of summer 1619 along the shores of the River James, Virginia . , What truly happened in the span of a few weeks from each other that would deeply shape the trajectory of history. The first meeting of a representative governing body in America came together in the newly built church of Jamestown. A few weeks later, the first African slaves landed in the mainland of English America, entering Chesapeake Bay. In 1619 , historian James Horn , historian, brought to light the year which gave rise to our nation's great paradox: slavery in the midst of freedom. This portentous year marked both the origins of American history's greatest political development, democracy, as well as that of what would eventually become one of the greatest challenges of the nation: the corrosive legacies of racial inequality that have afflicted America since its inception . This paper discusses how slavery and racial prejudice gradually evolved in Virginia during the half century following the arrival of the Angolans. (DELETE “This paper discusses how…”. It’s important to use the thesis as the main points and transition in the paper. Something more like… The evolution of slavery and racial prejudice in early 17 th century Virginia is unclear because both T aylor and Baiylin contradict them selves. (then introduce how it evolved and its significance)

2 Horn refers to two events that took place simultaneously and which shaped the whole of the American history: a general assembly meeting and the arrival of a buttered privateer. A couple weeks back, it carted the first shipment of African slaves (Horn 17) (How does quote have relevance to main point of argument) This quote shows the Africans were called slaves as soon as they were being shipped to the Americas, from Africa and south America. . According to this well-narrated account of events in history, Virginia is where slavery and liberty were born in history at the same time (Bly 36). He has is also proof proven that Africans were already slaves in the middle of the sixteenth century and mentions some British and American people who took advantage of this business. Horn relates a tale about the emergence of the settlement of Jamestown along the shores of the James River in Virginia with a vision of peace and liberty (Horn 53). He also tells the origins of the first slaves to the Congo. (I would include a transition into the next paragraph. Along the lines of… While Horn and Bailyn highlight the tradition of exploiting African slaves beginning earlier than colonization, there are some reasons why others believe it’s a product of American colonization. However according to Allan Taylor, he argues that, Early early Jamestown truly resembles a vision of insanity, starvation, sickness and abuse (Taylor 87) ( I ’d recommend using actual quotes and integrating them into your own sentences. Adds strength and support to argument) This quote shows that Africans were abused and owned by Europeans since they were held against their will which shows that Taylor contradicts . himself. Also ,, even if they weren’t called slaves they sure were being treated as ones. The London colonist company, The Virginia Corporation, naively told the colonial representatives not to encourage the Indians to see English people killed , because since the indigenous people could realize that the colonists were mere mortals. This lesson was easily unlikely, as the colonists perished in vast numbers from sickness

3 and malnutrition. Just thirty-eight of the original 104 settlers who had landed in April 1607 lasted nine months longer. The ongoing transportation of newcomers scarcely kept the colony going (Taylor 129). 220 colonists were present in the spring of 1609, but just sixty of them lasted the winter. winter. So this shows how much power the Europeans had over the Africans since there were probably 4 times as much Africans in numbers. There was even one instance in which o One hungry colonist assassinated his wife and consumed her, for which he was burnt. Another thing to remember regarding 1619 was that Tsenacommacah's English settlement and occupation were by no way certain. Bailyn’s has written against the establishment of democracy in 1619 as a required phase in the unnecessary: "If we make the error of fixing that position in time as intrinsically or predictably as English (Bly 441), we pave the way for the assumption that the United States still existed in embryonic form." This quote explains that America was still underdeveloped with no f orm of governance or order which gave insisted the Europeans to own slaves since there were no consequences amo ng the land they were on. ( The quote does not give much insight as to what the author or you are trying to prove. I would suggest using a quote from Bailyn that has more substance) In the half a century after the advent of the Angolan population, slavery and ethnic discrimination eventually developed in Virginia when the Portuguese captured them and they became "20 and strange" on August 20, 1619, and bought by the English colonists (Hagedorn 594). The first Africans enslaved, who arrived at Point Ease, today called Hampton Roads (so what?) . Many of their names and the exact sum that remained at Point Comfort was lost in history, however most of their voyage is documented. Allan Taylor also argues that, In America, nothing succeeds, particularly when writing common history (Taylor 151). This goes to show that

4 documentation at the time was not very accurate and shows that there could have been slaves during 1619 or even before 1619 which can be a contradiction. Originally, the Portuguese imperial powers were captured and sent to Luanda port, the capital of modern Angola, in prison rulers of the Kongo and Ndongo Tribal Kingdoms (Horn 28) . The San Juan Bautista ship was ordered from there to sail to Veracruz, in the colony of New Spain. Typically, approximately 150 of the 350 prisoners on board the boat died at the cruise. Two privateers, the White Lion and the Treasurer, hit the boats when it reached its goal (Bailyn 64) . It was the White Lion that at the Punta Comfort at Virginia Colony, and on August 20, 1619 exchanged a number of prisoners for food. ( While an important aspect to history, I would fix the gr ammar and context in which you express it. For instance, highlight more of the “so what” as a result of these pi eces of history ) Bailyn's part is to blame Jamestown for his bad credibility for the famous historical memory of the succeeding New England Pilgrim colonists of 1620 (Bailyn 91). This First Thanksgiving is, of course, a highly selective image. The pilgrims fingered friendship two years later in order to trick seven Indians into a deadly trap. The victors raised a head to the fort to scare the surviving indigenous populations (Horn 15). But American schoolchildren respond to the first thanksgiving every year instead of the following head to the pole . This shows that the colonists were willing to betray the people of the land and kill to have their own freedom and territory. Also if the pilgrims were so brutal towards the Indians it wouldn’t make sense that they were easy on the Africans because they were willing to do anything for their new world. (How do pilgrims come into fruition in the paper. What is the significance an d how does it have to do with the evolution of slavery?)

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