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HIST 2300 February 1st, 2017 (The beginnings of a Permanent European…
HIST 2300 February 1st, 2017
The beginnings of a Permanent European Presence
European settlement: key moment in world history
How to gain economic benefit from these new lands?
Is there gold? silver? how about "jewels"?
Markets: what can be exported from Europe?
Before settler colonies: ships and supplies after settler colonies: luxuries
Resources: what can be extracted from the Americas?
Raw materials ( timber, minerals)
Plantation agriculture: sugar, tobacco, indigo, rice
Territory means power
Financial: raw materials and agriculture
strategic: shipping and military base
How to obtain labor?
Ships: share of profits to crews
Plantations: offer land to adventuruous subjects
military men ending service in colonies (Spain)
Settlers willing to relocate (Spain, England)
Colonies are an extension of the home country
Same rules, laws, culture (religion, language)
Over time: colonies develop local customs /culture
Difficult to enforce laws
"benign neglect" - ignore violations because of distance
Permanent New World Colonies
Econmienda System (New Spain)
The "Black legend" of spain
Settlers colonies (New England)
The answer to the labor problem: force labor- native and African
Native populations - not sustainable (disease/escape)
African slaves imported
Chattel slavery - a new world invention
:warning: :warning:
Human beings as property
Life long condition
Inheretiable condition
No social or legal status
Difference: old world systems - No legal route to freedom for slaves
Spain's New World Colonies
Spanish colonies - administered direction by the crown
Few "settlers". many overseers, military forces, slaves
Central administration - no legislatures
Conversion run by the crown (financed, guarded by soldiers)
Spain's official religion is roman catholic
Virtually all countries have a specific legal religion
supported by the government
church attendance mandatory
Ecomienda
Grant of land and the (forced) labor of native population
Encourange settlement by men leaving military
promise of riches through work, land acquisition