Victors and Vanquished, The Interesting Narrative, and The Social Contract gave their readers a glimpse into what the world was like before it became modern. ... Rousseau wrote The Social Contract because he believed that the government should be run by the people because it is the general will of the people that matters most. ... This social pact is what rules everyone and unites them into one country because they are doing what is good for the whole. ... "The social pact establishes equality among citizens in that they all pledge themselves under the same conditions and must all enjoy the s...

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The communities of New England often kept a close watch on the families that lived within them, which supported the "English system where governance, socialization, and social welfare and economic activities all fell within the purview of the domestic household."4 "Town fathers" often kept a close watch on the families, especially in the case in which a family was having trouble, or could not pay its bills. ... As the eighteenth century went on, it became more and more difficult, however, "to support a family on farming alone," and many had to resort to working in factories or shops as well ...

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Large estate owners, also called hacendados, solved the need for a regular supply of labor by contracting directly with Indians, often paying less than they would with men from Spain. ... The next social group was the Middle Groups. ... The last group of the social groups was the poor group. ... In regions with large Indian populations, traditional social institutions and kin networks eased the prevalent material deprivation. ... The reason that the studying of the social classes after being imperialism is because of the income of the people was hard to keep steady. ...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. ... In exchange, the latter had to allow them social precedence. ... CONDITIONS OF THE SLAVES The only group that would have an interest in overthrowing the social order were the slaves of the father's household, in alliance with the bâ- dolo ("those without power," socially speaking, the poor peasants). 2 Indeed, it is ...

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Eugene Genovese believed that slaveholders were more concerned about social status and power that they received from owning more slaves. ... This caused the value of the slaves to increase and owning slaves showed social status. ...

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Except for a few social deviants, neither Africans nor Europeans would enslave members of their own societies, but in the early modern period, Africans had a somewhat narrower conception of who was eligible for enslavement than had Europeans. ... The slave trade was thus a product of differing constructions of social identity and the ocean-going technology that brought Atlantic societies into sudden contact with each other. ... Because Amerindians died in large numbers, and insufficient numbers of Europeans were prepared to cross the Atlantic, the form that this demand took was shaped by con...

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