Africanization and Anglicization
History 103
Sept. 18, 1998
Launching Carolina
English West Indies
Barbados
Jamaica
Growing English involvement in Atlantic slave trade
Proprietors’ aims
Locke’s "Fundamental Constitutions"
Rice
Growth of black population
Shift in slave importation pattern
Stono Rebellion (1739)
Spectrum of Settlement, ca. 1700
The Political Economy of Empire
Premises of English mercantilism
Fixed amount of wealth in the world
Most wealth Æ most power
Role of colonies
- Drain off excess population
- Supply raw materials
- Supply ships
Navigation Acts
- Trade in English or colonial ships, not foreign
- Enumerated goods traded only to England or English colony
- Most goods received only from England (slaves as an exception)
- Failure of Dominion of New England
- Emergence of (weak) imperial bureaucracy
Transformation of Colonial Government
Glorious Revolution in England
England’s mixed (or balanced) constitution
King ´ Monarchy
House of Lords ´ Aristocracy
House of Commons ´ Democracy
Colonial model
Royal governor
Council (Upper House)
Lower House
Broad franchise in colonies
Development of political elites
Elite Emulation of English Gentry
Architecture
Ideal of cultivation