Nashob A Utopian Society

History is comprised of actual accounts of things that happened, forces that have shaped us, and lessons that we gain. As stated in the introduction, ““Wee will have noe Lords, noe Landgraves noe Cassiques we renounce them all.” With these words, the earliest settlers of North Carolina declared their complete rejection of any social hierarchy in their colony” (I). In Noeleen McIlvenna’s book, A Very Mutinous People, McIlvenna discusses how North Carolina doing their own thing made North Carolina’s history much different from that of any other early North American colony. It is said that, “North Carolina’s story fits none of the familiar models of colonial American history” (14). As a whole, this book reviews the political struggles of the earliest settlers in North Carolina and their eventual loss of freedom. Many were there to escape debt, persecution, and indentured servitude. They became closely allied in the political and sometimes physical fight to retain their lack of connection to the gentrified world.

Free blacks took to the road to test out their freedom or look for loved ones i. Emancipation STRENGHTENED black families; slave marriages were legalized so as children could be legal heirs d. Others took to the city, where black communities sprung up i. “Exodusters,” i.e. the 25,000 blacks migrating from LA, TX, and MI to Kansas from 1878 to 1880 were prevented migration on the Mississippi River at one point. B. Free black life 1. The CHURCH became the focus of black community life a. They now had the opportunity to form their own churches with their own ministers i. black Baptist Church (150,000 members in 1850) reached 500,000 in 1870.

Kimberley S. Hanger, Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997).

In their thought-provoking but generally well-received book, Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1640-1676¸ authors T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes investigate a heretofore little-known community of free blacks. Despite the burgeoning slave trade and generally held racist beliefs in pre-Colonial Virginia, the authors argue, convincingly, that a community based more on land ownership than race as a social divider thrived, albeit only for a generation. They further explore the origins and eventual demise of this curious but egalitarian system. Though it goes against the broad swath of our cultural

A group of Jews arrived at the colony in 1733 and James Oglethorpe allowed them to stay despite the what the charter said as well as what the other trustees said (Locks, p.38). The ease smuggling of smuggling rum into the colony soon nullified the prohibition set by the trustees, however the land and slavery prohibition were harder to sneak around. The colonists were meant to be planters as well as soldiers, and the colonists were given small land plots to serve both the colony’s defensive needs as well as their luxurious mercantile needs; the small plots were meant to create a compact society fit for war rather than a sparsely settled plantation economy. The 50 acres that were given to the colonists sometimes spread over swamps and areas of infertility which rendered the land useless; the colonists also had to pay rent on their land as well as cultivate the entirety of their land within a specified time or else the land would result in forfeiture back to the trustees (Document #6). The trustees banned the use of slavery for fear that they would lose control of the land to the colonists, and many of the colonists weren’t prepared for frontier life which led them to flee north for better opportunity. The trustees hoped to create a labor force from white indentured servants rather than black slaves, however, the white labor force was so

In 1830’s Georgia, religion was becoming less firmly established due to the influx of Northern settlers. Many religious

New Harmony is a historical town on the Wabash River in Harmony Township, Posey County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The society was established in 1814, the town was originally known as Harmony (or Harmonie, or New Harmony). The 20,000-acre settlement was the brainchild of George Rapp and was home exclusively to German Lutherans in its early years. New Harmony wasn’t a utopian community it wasn’t until 1824 they decided to sell their property, Robert Owen, a Welsh industrialist and social former purchased the town in 1825 with the invention of creating a utopian community. New Harmony became known as a center for advances in education and scientific research. New Harmony's residents established the first free library, a civic drama club,

Each person has their own vision of utopia. Utopia means an ideal state, a paradise, a land of enchantment. It has been a central part of the history of ideas in Western Civilization. Philosophers and writers continue to imagine and conceive plans for an ideal state even today. They use models of ideal government to express their ideas on contemporary issues and political conditions. Man has never of comparing the real and ideal, actuality and dream, and the stark facts of human condition and hypothetical versions of optimum life and government.

African- American settlement in New Rochelle before World War 2 was one of USA’s first community where emancipated blacks were allowed. The population of African American in New Rochelle, slavery and segregation and jobs for African American are topics that will be touched throughout this research paper.

Utopia would be a place where everyone cared and loved for each other. For example, no one would judge nor criticize another person. No one would fight over different things, thus the prevention of war. One would never feel threatened in their acts if nobody hated them for it.

The Mississippian culture of the Mississippian River Valley is a collection of numerous Native American tribes that maintained their individual identities while being incorporated into changing centralized polities from the beginnings of Cahokia in 800 AD to the decline of Moundville in 1400 AD (Blitz 2008: 38). The social complexities and economic systems of the Mississippian peoples have been highly contested (Wilson et al. 2006; Marcoux 2007; Byers 2013; Cobb 2010; Steponaitis and Scarry 2016). Some scholars have argued that the social structure was inherently hierarchal, while others have argued that the polities of Cahokia and Moundville were defined by their heterarchical structure (Beck 2003; Byers 2013). In addition, the tendency for archaeologists to define Mississippian polities as chiefdoms has been in flux in recent years due to the rigid nature of the term in past scholarship (Cobb 2010; Steponaitis and Scarry 2016).

Research on the formation, organization, and functions of the American Colonization Society has resulted in the following list of scholarly works for perusal, and consideration in the study of the colonization African Americans in Africa. It well may give evidence of how blacks continued to be oppressed in

     Between the 1820’s and 1860’s, Americans were trying new things and promoting different ideas and ways of thinking. Once such idea is that of a utopian society. A utopian

An impractical scheme for social improvement. This is the third definition of the word utopia in the Mirriam-Webster dictionary. Anatole France says it best with this quote regarding utopian societies, „Without the Utopias of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians that traced the lines of the first city· Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.„ The world has been constantly changing over time, new ideas pave paths that lead to better living. Most of the ideas are expressed through science fiction stories written by authors looking to change the world in some way or another. Authors begin with an idea, and then move towards placement of thought and scheme into somewhat of a reasonable reality. Authors such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Octavia Butler use the stories they write as ways to express their problems that they have with the present world. Advances in the present day world can only be reached through dreams and desires. These dreams and desires come to life as authors present their ideas on paper.

The word utopia originates from Sir Thomas More’s novel of the same name, Utopia. Sir Thomas More created the term as an intentional homophone of the word “eutopia”, which is a Greek word meaning “good place”. (Sterling, 2015) “Utopia”, on the other hand, means “no place”, which implies either an impossibility of existence or the results of attempting to bring about such existence. The reasons why a utopia is so destructive to societies are that each person has their own vision of perfection and it is impossible to make everyone agree; if everyone made their own utopias there would be conflict between their objectives. Also, human nature is flawed and cannot accommodate perfection.