Middle Colonies Vs New England Colonies

Comparing the English Colonies The English Colonies are very alike, however they are also very different. One difference between these colonies is their winter seasons. The southern colonies have a short and mild winter. Where as the middle colonies, face a cold and snowy winter.

Edward E. Baptist states, “The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth”. In the beginning, the colonies profited off of the slaves that worked tobacco plantations along the eastern coast of the United States. As land was taken from the Native Americans, it was the productivity of the people who inhabited the land that brought wealth to the country, not the land itself. Leading up to the American Revolution, the United States increased cotton production, calling for more slaves, “By 1775, 500,000 of the thirteen colonies’ 2.5 million inhabitants were slaves, about the same as the number of slaves then alive in the British Caribbean colonies.

The 13 colonies were created in the late 1600s and early 1700s. There are 3 groups in the 13 colonies, the New England Colonies , the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies. The Middle colonies and Southern Colonies have similarities and differences. The Middle and Southern Colonies have many similarities. First the middle and colonies are religious catholicos.

Mix of large cities and large farms. connected community, they work nicely with each other. The colony isn’t as important as the cities. if you missed religious. meetinghouse is like our town hall.

The development of slave culture differed greatly in the Northern Colonies than the Southern Colonies. The North had more diverse crops, smaller farms. and more port cities than the South. This caused the development of slave culture to differ greatly in these two very different parts of the Colonies. Northern Colonies had more diverse crops than South.

The differences between New England, Middle, and Southern colonies The British Empire began expanding over into North America in the late 1500’s. The first few attempts to creating a stable and lasting colony was a struggle for England and the new colonists until 1607 when the British granted the Virginia Company of London permission to send colonists over to North America (Boyer et al. 47). The first colony proved to be successful, and the British Empire believed that forming more colonies would bring in more profit for the home country.

If we compare both economies we can find that the economy of the Southern colonies had in its favor the factors of climate and geography but the New England colonies had the one that was the colony with greater number of slaves and their plantations

Ch4.1 In Britain’s mainland colonies, there were three deeply entrenched slave systems that included group system, task system, and wage laborer system. Tobacco came from the fieldworks in the Chesapeake region. In Virginia, about half of the white families in this location, owned at least one slave. By 1770, there was about two hundred and seventy thousand slaves.

• The Northern colony has also been known as New England. • Long, cold winters here could be quite harsh. It was difficult for disease to spread because of the cold weather though. • Their land was full of trees for timber, mountains, and unfortunately lacked agriculturally suitable earth and soil. • Some of their natural resources include, fish, timber, and livestock.

Slavery grow rapidly in the southern colonies than the northern colonies for the reason that southern colonies slave work year round to grow crop like rice, they have the ideal season for work year round that the northern colonies didn’t have. For example on page 75 “ Unlike cultivating wheat or corn in the north, growing rice demanded backbreaking year- round labor, slave had to clear the swampy lowlands in winter, build dykes to keep seawater out of the fields, and plant rice in shallow trenches in the spring. In late summer, the harvested the crop. In the fall, they pounded the rice kernels with wooden mortals and pestles. Come wintertime they turned the soil to prepare it for a new round of planting.

The original thirteen British/American colonies were all unified under one higher government (Parliament), however, every single colony was completely different by means of agriculture/production, founding government, and human resources. The most important cause that made each colony different from one another is agriculture – shaping how a colony functioned and formed overall. Proprietary colonies dominated the New England colonial landscape between 1660 and 1685, as “…powerful aristocrats could govern largely as they wished as long as they conformed broadly to English traditions.” (pg. 67), which allowed every colony to rule differently. These New England colonies had one goal in mind – mercantilism.

Multiple ethnicities came to America from Europe in hopes of finding religious freedom. They were tired of being persecuted back in their homeland. Some of the more notable factions were the Pilgrims, Puritans, and Quakers. The Puritans wanted to reform from the Church of England and set up a strict religious system in the new colony, Massachusetts Bay. Several of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the United States of America were settled in the seventeenth century by men and women, who, in the face of European persecution, refused to compromise and passionately held religious convictions and fled to the New World.

The horrors of slavery didn’t begin in colonial America. Slavery can be traced all the way back to 18th century Babylon. Babylonian slaves were treated considerably well, with the exception of the workers in the mines, in fact the slaves where even permitted to own property. Unfortunately, not much is known about slavery in Babylon, but it wasn’t the only ancient civilization that had slaves. Some of the others were Greece, Rome, and many within the middle ages.

In 1815 , slavery was a big issue and many abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison did many things to abolish slavery. New England had slaves but treated them like family, they taught them to read and write and were friendly to the slaves. Slaves were brought to New England throughout the colonial time period, and continued throughout the colonies in years before the American Revolution. Slavery was distinctively Southern prior to the American Revolution.

Because of this separation they were much closer to African culture than any other blacks in the colonies. These changes to the slavery system in the south transformed this section of the colonies to a place where slave labor was the primary workforce unlike to the north. In conclusion, slave labor within the American British Colonies was very diverse and different throughout each region. The difference between these regions came about as a result of the agricultural and industrial needs.