Africanization and Anglicization
History 103
Sept. 18, 1998
Launching Carolina
- English West Indies
- 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