of Colonial

Camden Burd, Ph.D.

Society

The

Development

Today's

• In what ways were the colonies unique?
• In what ways were the colonies similar?
• How did a connection to the larger Atlantic World shape colonial demography, economies, and culture?

Questions

Sybil Huntington May. Haddam. ca. 1758. Florence Griswold Museum.

New

England

Recruiting

Colonists

"Recruiting Settlers to Carolina, 1666"

- Robert Horne

What types of settlers did Horne hope to recruit and settle in the Carolina colony?

 

How does he recruit them? What sorts of promises does he make?

Province of

Pennsylvania

1681

Benjamin West. Treaty with the Indians. 1771 - 1772. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

"We find there Lutherans, Reformed, Catholics, Quakers, Mennonists or Anabaptists, Herrnhuters or Moravian Brethren, Pietists, Seventh Day Baptists, Dunkers, Presbyterians, Newborn, Freemasons, Separatists, Freethinkers, Jews, Mohammedans, [and] Pagans..."

- Gottlieb Mittelberger, Journey to Pennsylvania (1750),

Indentured Servants

to

Slaves

From

West

Indies

Sugar Works, French West Indies, 1667. Jean Baptiste DuTertre, Histoire Générale des Antilles Habitées par les Francois (Paris, 1667).

Bacon's

Rebellion

1676

Howard Pyle. The Burning of Jamestown. ca. 1906.

Enslaved Populations-1770

New Hampshire - 654 - 1%

Massachusetts - 4,754 - 2%

Connecticut - 5, 698 - 3%

Rhode Island - 3,761 - 6%

New York - 19,062 - 12%

New Jersey - 8,220 - 7%

Pennsylvania - 5,561 - 2%

Delaware - 1,836 - 5%

Maryland - 63,818 - 32%

Virginia - 187,600 - 42%

North Carolina - 69,600 - 35%

South Carolina - 75,168 - 61%

Georgia - 15,000 - 45%

Woodson, Carter Godwin , The History of the Negro Church, Washington, D.C. : Associated Publishers, c1921.

John Woolman (1720 - 1772)

The 

Stono Rebellion

September 9, 1739

Atlantic Trading Routes. Give Me Liberty: An American History, 2nd Ed. 2009

The

Enlightenment

John Locke (1632 - 1704)

Joseph Siffred Duplessi, Benjamin Franklin, 1785. National Portrait Gallery.

Benjamin

Franklin

1707 - 1790

The

Great

Awakening

"That world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone is extended abroad under you. There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God; there is hell’s wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor anything to take hold of: there is nothing between you and hell but the air; ’tis only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up.

 

You probably are not sensible of this; you find you are kept out of hell, but don’t see the hand of God in it, but look at other things, as the good state of your bodily constitution, your care of your own life, and the means you use for your own preservation. But indeed these things are nothing; if God should withdraw his hand, they would avail no more to keep you from falling, than the thin air to hold up a person that is suspended in it…."

- Jonathan Edwards

Thomas Walley, George Whitefield Preaching in Bolton, June 1750, c. 1863; Bolton Library & Museum Services, Bolton Council.

George

Whitefield

1714 - 1770

European Settlement and Ethnic Diversity on the Atlantic Coast of North America, 1760. Give Me Liberty: An American History, 2nd Ed. 2009

Review

• The importance of the Atlantic trade to colonial economic and cultural development.
• The centrality of the slave system as an economic and social force in the colonies.
• Ethnic and religious diversity of the colonies.

Concepts