The institution of slavery in colonial America, mainly informed by labor struggles, implied a socioeconomic divide between societies with slaves and slave societies. ... Due to the fluidity of colonial slavery, the congenial circumstances of the charter generation–equitable social order, compatibly to conventional English practices, bearable race relations and ill-defined slave laws - vanished with the rise of plantation slavery. The first age of slavery in North America, featured societies with slaves characterizing the Charter Generation. ... Thus, the Plantation generation of slave...

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In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. ... Indeed, Butler paints a picture of a late colonial culture not only radically reshaped by immigration, but essentially the same as modern American culture. ... Butler proves that these characteristics of American culture and the American people have their origins in the late colonial era. ... Likewise, rich plantation owners who leeched off the labor of their slaves came to dominate the southern ...

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