AMERICAN SLAVERY

Influence of Slavery on Conceptions of Citizenship in American history

Influence of Slavery on Conceptions of Citizenship in American history

Introduction to Medieval History

Slavery was already a social and economic institution known since antiquity more remote. It had evolved from one form domain postwar situations semi-economic domain indulge them, until the stranglehold of one man by another under pre-capitalist society of the Middle Ages. More than known, we can say that institution at the time of the great discoveries and the initiation of European expansion in the world. America is precisely that which gives new shape and meaning to this ancient form of domination of man by man.

The discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the subsequent conquest of this continent at the hands of Spanish and Portuguese repercussions from the sixteenth century in another region of planet, somewhat removed from the events of conquest comes to Africa. Although the two continents separated by the Atlantic Ocean, with historical, social and economic completely different from the XVI century there is a rapprochement between America and Africa. The cause of this approach is that the conquest of America, with all the wealth natural development prospects offered their conquerors, required for complementation labor necessary for the appropriation of such wealth, and advantages in obtaining economic exploitation of such vast areas.

Slavery of 1600 & 1800

Historians divide the lands that subsequently become part of the eastern United States, in four regions. From north to south: the New England, the central colonies, the colonies on the Chesapeake Bay and the Southern Colonies. Several scholars add a fourth region, the frontier, which had certain characteristics. The colonies of New France (later under the British rule, known as Quebec) and Spanish Florida bordered regions, for a long time developed into independent states.

Ethnicity got worked out in various ways related to the problems of the family Latin America. One of the frequent analyses of illegitimacy gets differentiated by ethnicity, which abounds in the work on the family in the colonial period, especially in regions where the indigenous population and black-was highly significant (e.g. in Mexico). In the case of the Andes, the use of this variable in family studies is less common. Ethnicity was the focus of another work more concerned with the indigenous society and its confrontation with the Americans.

The women of America, their stations and their destinies, were as diverse as the overall population was complex. A dignified lady would not have thought she had much in common with the black girl who scrubbed her patio, nor with the Indian woman slaving over hot stoves in her kitchen. It is not only geographical terrain or ethnic traits that account for these differences. Over the course of 300 years of colonial life, the position of women evolved in various directions according to social class, family situation, potential for achieving a degree of autonomy, and community recognition. In spite of all these contrasts and changes, standard religious discourse remained strictly ...