Betty Wood introduces her book, The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies, by raising two conceptually-related questions: 1) What made English colonists believe they had the right to enslave West Africans and; 2) What prompted them to do so? ... The English saw no formalized religion in the West Africans, either, and therefore thought they were less humane. ... The English also viewed them to be very important "assets" in their quarrels with Spain, and they believed that the Native Americans could easily be taught the English ways and help spread the n...

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Colonies of colonial America had different views when it came to religion, but they all had one thing in common. All of the colonies could to some extent, decide themselves what religions could be established in the colony. ... A second example is the colony of Pennsylvania, which was founded by an English man named William Penn. ... Completely opposite to the idealistic freedom of religion colonies was Massachusetts. ... This society was filled with diverse religions, commerce, and discrete legislative assemblies. ...

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Esquivel did establish a ship building yard to repair galleons destined for more important colonies, and in addition, he established several sugar plantations, vineyards and cotton fields. ... A significant number of Portuguese arrived in the forthcoming decade but these proved insufficient for the needs of a colony tasked with supporting such economically vital colonies as Mexico. ... Despite Spanish efforts to maintain Jamaica and other colonies, by the mid 1600s the Spanish empire was in visible decline, due in part to the rapid rise of Britain as a colonial power. ... Finally, the Brit...

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On the one hand, the political and cultural links between the UK and former colonies encouraged migration to Britain. ... New Commonwealth immigrants formed numerousethnic groups based on common language, religion and race. ... Some groups have to resort to a second language, such as English, in order to integrate. The Asian community is further divided by several religions, values, cultural practices and castes, as well as by the the political tensions found in the politics of the Indian subcontinent. ...

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The Iberian countries dominated the colonization of Latin America and the Caribbean with small colonies established by the French, English and Dutch. Regardless of the nationality of the colonizers, almost all of the colonies shared basic characteristics, which have persevered over time in some way or another. It is possible to organize the traits of these colonies into four distinct categories: economic development, religious and social mixing, racial and ethnic mixing and political structures. ... The most vivid example of this fusion can be seen in Brazil were dozens of religions have sprou...

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Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? In 1562 John Hawkins, the first English slave-trader arrived in Africa with a fleet of three ships. ... RELIGION: Obeah viewed by whites" as a superstition was a form of slave religion a powerful facet of African culture transplanted to America. ... Like America, slave religion in the Caribbean shared a great deal of the same features. ... From 1750 and onwards the "Great Awakening" saw the Evangelical noncomformist movement sweep through the Cheaspeake and the Carolinas, importan...

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