Tim Jones Creative Writing

“The newly enacted customs regulations have had a most detrimental effect upon business. The original reforms back in 1763 and the Sugar Act of the following year have provided for what seem to me unlawful searches and seizures of ships and cargo. Violators of the law have had their ships and cargo taken by the British who in turn sell the assets. The proceeds are divided into thirds split evenly amongst the English treasury, the governor of the respective colony, and lastly the officers responsible for prosecuting the

The film, Traces of The Trade: A Story From The Deep North, by Katrina Browne, is a truly subjective documentary that captures traces the routes and past of the D’Wolf family from Bristol, Rhode Island. Browne and nine other family members went out to explore her ancestor’s lives that at the time were protuberant New England slave traders. During her journey, she embarked in Triangle Trade, which included the illegal trading of human beings in order for profit. This was not only illegal, but was also cruel.

Mr. Meares, few liked this man, as he was a perfect example of a peasant; no wonder one would have killed him… but who? The remains of the “man” was taken to be analyzed: scanned for fingerprints, and have an autopsy conducted. As for the scene, blood scattered all over, and bloody newspaper scattered around.

The perspectives of African slave merchants, the female slaves, and the plantation workers in the Americans which are missing in this collection might add other dimensions to our understanding of this commerce in people. Knowing the perspective of the African slave merchants who were present during the slave trade in Africa would have

Free trade was very important to every individual’s livelihood. Without seemingly no interruption from Britain, colonist traded with many different European powers. Not only did this boost the colonial economy, but paved way for an angry bunch of colonists when London does double down on its policy enforcement. But prior to this, traders and merchants operated with ease. The sudden stop of these operations is what had poured oil over the fire of the evolution towards revolt. Prosperous trade with a variety of countries consisting of slaves and cash crops, chiefly in the south, had made many slave owners

In discussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade, the term “Middle Passage” often arises. The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic Slave trade. The journey was one of the most horrific aspects of the morally deplorable system of slavery. Death was a constant threat as diseases, starvation, asphyxiation and severe depression rampantly claimed the lives of African and the ship’s crew. Throughout this essay you will understand the tragic journey of the slaves and what hardships they had to go through.

America took great pride in their bustling, robust economy that was built from nothing. From the Columbian Exchange after Columbus’s discovery of America in 1492, to Triangular Trade in the eighteenth-century America

The militia members assured the emigrants they were protected and escorted them from the hasty fortification. After walking a distance from the camp, the militiamen, with the help of auxiliary forces hiding nearby, attached the emigrants and killed all of them that they thought were old enough to be potential witnesses to report the attack.

Despite the fact that the German has let the rest of the soldiers escape unharmed, Robert’s innate violence triggers the death of an innocent soldier. Thus, Robert’s actions reveal the inherent savage nature of humankind.

"I think a reasonable belief would be that his father got killed and then subsequently he shoots and kills these four people," the commander said. "Does he do that randomly? I mean only he can answer that question. I wouldn't suspect he would just pick four random people on the street. That wouldn't make sense to me."

This weeks reading covers in detail the victims themselves of transportation. American authorities sent many Quakers suspected of Loyalism to the British to Virginia frontier. While British authorityies sent the banished to Charleston they also sent rebel leaders to St. Augustine. In both cases, the victims and others produced abundant documentation protesting the legality of these moves, but it happened anyway. The forced removal of tens of thousands of people that American authorities viewed as treasonous, including the massive confiscation of their property, seems to fit in with many of the trends discussed in this book.

Shay’s men marched across open fields in a plan of sneak attack. Little did they know, their message had been intercepted by the colonial militia men and they too planned to attack the rebels’ weaker forces. After the battle, four men were dead and most were injured. As they attempted to flee, the militia captured over half the rebel’s men. They were then sentenced to hang for treason, but after going through court, most of them were pardoned.

Each colony in the Americas had its fair share of difficulties within their economy. What the colonists chose to rely on as a source of revenue was of utmost importance in creating a stable economy, whether it was the production of sugar, tobacco, cotton, or possibly even the trade of fish or fur. Through the discussion of climate and location, it becomes clear all colonies could not effectively produce or trade the same goods. For instance, the Carolinians were at first dependent upon the trade of deerskins and the use of Indian slaves in their economy. Alan Taylor points out that both deerskins and Indian slaves were “diminishing commodities” that were beginning to lay a “flimsy economic foundation for their new colony” (236). The Carolinians, according to Taylor, recognized that they needed to “develop a valuable agricultural staple for export” in order to create a stable economy (236). They were then able to cultivate and specialize in rice, becoming the “English Empire’s great rice colony just as the Chesapeake specialized in tobacco and the West Indies in sugar” (237). New England’s economy on the other hand had a prosperous start, “primarily from the regular infusion of newcomers,” who “consumed the crops made by the first-comers” (174). However, after the conclusion of the Great Migration in 1640, New England began to

Instead of a killer, his reconnaissance unearthed another body. In this instance, not one he could dispose of in the mud. Noticing wounds on the head and neck, he marched off to summon help.

Local artisans, laborers, and small merchants who traded outside of the British Empire, embraced the boycott of British goods and severance with England entirely because it afforded them economic opportunities that made the risk of revolution worthwhile (p. 145, Berkin). These groups had been living under the yoke of unfair taxation and an inexhaustible source of British competition in labor and goods. Revolution, for them, meant “a release from Britain’s mercantile policies, which restricted colonial trade with other nations, held out the promise of expanded trade and an end to the risks of smuggling (p. 145, Berkin).”