“Fighting…Maybe for Freedom but Probably Not…”

“Fighting…Maybe for Freedom but Probably Not…”

Please respond to the following questions: (Note: Please respond to the following in at least 200 words.

Look at video: Go to Colonial Williamsburg’s Website to read the article titled “Fighting…Maybe for Freedom, but probably not”, located at http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn07…. Watch the video titled “James Horton on Slavery and the American Revolution. YouTube. (2009, April 17). Compare and contrast the practice of slavery in the northern and southern colonies. Investigate the primary ways in which slavery became a race based system and the fundamental reasons the practice ended in the North using evidence from the resource materials.

In the classmate response, agree or disagree with the classmate’s position and then provide support for your position. CLASSMATE RESPONSE: When it came to the practice of slavery in the northern and southern colonies, it was very much different because they were colonized for different reasons. The north was colonized for freedom of worship and freedom of political thought. The colonies had hope for a separate society, where they could show their homeland, how a country should be run. The northern colonies were based on theocracy, where the state forced the people to live and worship in an orthodox way.

The southern colonies have characteristics that are the opposite of the New England colony’s attributes. The Southern Colonies were the Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, Virginia and Province of Georgia, The Southern colonies were developed for freedom of economic opportunity. There economy was supported by plantations mostly run by slaves. The South would focus more on massive slaves work to grow tobacco and rice that they would sell to England. The southern colonies had goals for mercantilism and increasing the prosperity of England. They also had a government based on a royal government, where the state was governed by a governor an