In this chapter, they start talking about the forming of colonization. The colonies started to have their own communities, especially the British colonies. After the second wave of its colonial expansion, I was surprised to read that the British colonies had taken over about 1.1 inhabitants, while the other colonies barely had any. Such as the French people, they weren't able to immigrate because of the harsh weather along with poverty that had struck them. I think what made British colonies appeal to immigrants is the farm land they offered and they accepted non-British immigrants as well. The fact they had a huge diversity in their colonies helped prosper into what would be America today. Having more equal rights, and being able to have a working job, by maintaining the crops on the farm land.
The other thing that caught my attention was the difference between American born slaves which they referred to the term "Creoles" and African born slaves. Creoles used their English first language to their advantage, and are almost treated like servants. They covered a lot of maintenance work around the household and don't have to endear the hard labor such as the African born slaves that were forced to work out in the field. In some ways, slaves were gaining small inches of freedom such as moving away from their owners households and renting rooms. Yet the one that caught my attention was the Stono's Rebellion where 100 slaves cried out for Liberty and stole guns with ammunition and killed 20 white people. Of course, they were caught for their actions and hunted down all slaves and killed them as well. This gave a new found fear for the whites, which I was so shocked to hear. I'm surprised they couldn't see a rebellion act coming, especially the way they treat their slaves. I think it comes to show they have no respect for them, seeing they weren't smart enough to rebel when obviously, they were.
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