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The General History of Virginia and Plymouth Plantation have many things alike. Such as, John Smith and William Bradford both starting a colony. Even though, these two stories share a couple things in common they also have their differences. A difference between these two stories is the type of Native Americans they both stumbled across while building their colonies. Both stories can be compared if you spot there similarities and both stories will have their differences between them along the way.

Leaning back in his rocker with his bare feet propped on the railing, Joshua smoked his first cigarette of the day. Fat, bushy-tailed squirrels running around the trees and swinging off the moss-laden limbs had held his attention for the past fifteen minutes; he welcomed distraction. Watching the squirrels had kept his thoughts at bay, which was good. He especially needed a break from thinking of the events of the last several days.

Scattered along many of Louisiana’s rivers and bayous are majestic, historical homes built during a time of Southern prosperity. In the South, these homes and surrounding property often called plantations, were the product of middle to upper class slave-owning planters. Central Louisiana is home to a plantation that is “the oldest standing structure” in this area. During a recent visit to Kent House Plantation, I learned of the history, operations, and current events that help to keep the past alive.

(Voices, pg. 69-67). Elizabeth describes her daily routine and the diet of Corn and salt which the Africans would welcome. Her garments are tattered and leaves much to be

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The charter and plantation generations happened over two different centuries and it begins with the arrival of Atlantic creoles in the Chesapeake. The date? The seventeenth century. During this time, creoles were engrossed in the Atlantic world and became familiar with English customs and ways of life. Berlin introduces us to the story of Anthony Johnson, a slave in Jamestown who had the benefits of farming independently, and was able to marry and baptize his children. He then later gained his freedom, became a farmer with his own slaves, sued his neighbor for sheltering a runaway and won his case in court. This is an example that Berlin uses to explore farming and economic practices and conditions within Virginia. During this time, Black slaves (who had English customs) and white indentured servants worked together on

We all tend to have a certain way of doing things that when it comes to everyone else, we start to believe it’s a divergent way of doing things. In other words it’s an act of ethnocentrism. A perfect and extreme example of ethnocentrism would be Hitler and the Nazis against the Jews. Hitler believed that the Jews were subordinate to his ethnicity and his believes so they didn’t deserve to live. This connects with Bradford and Smith’s in the way of first impression. They both saw the native americans in an unfriendly way and very different from them due to their choice of style and that’s exactly where ethnocentrism plays a role. Bradford and Smith had their own opinions on the native americans once they touched land and saw them.

Laurel Valley Village Plantation located at 595 Hwy. 308, Thibodaux, LA 70301 in Lafourche, Parish is a museum of the history of farming sugar cane. I visited the museum on April 26, 2016 and viewed the past as if it still sits in the present. The land that Laurel Valley Plantation sits on originally belonged to a Mr. Etienne Boudreaux. He received the land as a grant in 1783.The main plantation house was burned down by Union soldiers in the Battle of Lafourche Crossing on June 20th through the 21st of June 1863. Joseph W. Tucker purchased the land and surrounding lands in 1832. Mr. Tucker was one of many plantation owners in the south that owned slaves and by 1850 had 162 slaves maintaining his fields at Laurel Valley. The plantation switched owners several times, but in 1915 Mr. J. W. Lepine the current owner invented a tractor that enabled him to plant faster than the use of mules and slaves.

On a cotton plantation, the slave and the plantation owner harbored their own views of society. The plantation owners viewed themselves as the elite of society while the slaves viewed society as oppressive. In order to endure their ordeal, slaves formed stronger communities and rebelled against their masters. The struggle between the two perspectives would continue until the end of the American Civil War.

In the mid 1800 there was a boom in sudar crops. It was hard for the Hawaiians to make sugar alone, so they took immigrants from other countries to help the Hawaiians but there was many struggles to in this years of boom.Plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800 was difficult. Living conditions in Hawaii were severely poor, working conditions were painful, and racism was treated unfairly.

The crops grown on plantations and the slavery system changed significantly between 1800-1860. In the early 1800s, plantation owners grew a variety of crops – cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco, hemp, and wheat. Cotton had the potential to be profitable, but there was wasn’t much area where cotton could be grown. However, the invention of the cotton gin changed this - the cotton gin was a machine that made it much easier to separate the seeds from cotton. Plantation owners could now grow lots of cotton; this would make them a lot of money. As a result, slavery became more important because the demand for cotton was high worldwide. By 1860, cotton was the main export of the south. The invention of the cotton gin and high demand for cotton changed

Over 40,000 free slaves, by June of 1865, then staked their claims on the land. The term “40 Acres and a Mule” was not written into the order, but somehow fabricated by the land allocation amount and Sherman giving some of the new land owners excess military mules. What happened next began the declining relationship of African Americans and their ability to own land. With the

1) Whitney 's cotton gin made cotton generation gigantically beneficial, and made a regularly expanding interest for slave work. The South 's reliance on cotton creation attached it monetarily to the manor framework and racially to white amazingness. The social culture and political mastery of the moderately little manor gentry disguised subjection 's extraordinary social and financial expenses for whites and also blacks. Most slaves were held by a couple of substantial grower. At the same time most slave-owners had few slaves, and most southern whites had no slaves whatsoever. All things considered, aside from a couple of mountain whites, the majority of southern whites firmly upheld subjection and racial amazingness on the grounds that they esteemed the trust of getting to be slave-owners themselves, and in light of the fact that white racial character provided for them a feeling of prevalence over the blacks. The treatment of the monetarily profitable slaves fluctuated extensively. Inside the limits of the brutal framework, slaves longed for opportunity and attempted to keep up their mankind, including family life. The more established dark colonization development was generally supplanted in the 1830s by a radical Garrisoning abolitionism requesting a prompt end to bondage.

In the book titled The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South, author John Blassingame’s theme, focused on the history of African slave experience throughout the American South. After much research, the author said in the preface that most historians focused more on the planter instead of the slave. He also pointed out that most of the research on slaves by previous historians was based on stereotypes, and do not tell the real history of slave life and a slave’s inner self. Most of these historians, who focused on antebellum southern history, left out the African-American slave experience on purpose. Through much gathering of research, Blassingame hoped to correct this injustice to the history of African-American slaves, and show how slavery affected slaves, but also American life, culture, and thought.

The seventeenth century marked the start of great colonization and immigration to the New World that was North America. Mainly in on the eastern coast of what is now the United States, England established colonies on this new land to thrive socially and economically. The English government readily sent its citizens to America to exploit its abundant source of raw materials and the English people exponentially came to the colonies to start a new life for themselves and to thrive socially. In Virginia during the seventeenth century, the geographical attributes in this region allowed the establishment of the cash crop tobacco to rapidly transform the colony socially and economically. Particularly in the Chesapeake Bay, the goal of social and