Plantation Colonies

Brazil’s Sugar Plantation

1. Sugar Plantations

   1. Harvesting and refining on one site
   2. Connection to industrial revolution

2. Labor

   1. Disease kills tons of NAs
   2. Portuguese bring African slaves

England’s Tobacco Colonies

1. Jamestown settlement

   1. Much like Spain’s first voyage
   2. Virginia company

2. Jamestown People

   1. Not well adapted to the environment
   2. Bad relationships with the Powhatan

3. Tobacco

   1. Cash crop
   2. Grows well in Virginia

4. House of Burgesses (1619)

   1. Representative government
   2. Made taxes and laws
   3. Notice that this is the same year as the first enslaved Africans landing in what would become the US

5. Indian War of 1622

   1. Opechancanough was mad about the English wanting to convert NA kids, he wants the English out
   2. Almost kills all the British

6. Royal Colony

   1. Company colony → royal colony
   2. Government is controlled by the King

7. Lord Baltimore Settles Catholics in Maryland

   1. Baltimore is an aristocrat and Catholic
   2. Maryland becomes a refuge for Catholics
   3. Lots of tobacco

The Caribbean Islands

1. Development

   1. English, Dutch, French, and Spanish in the Caribbean
   2. St. Kitts becomes an important center
   3. Sugar is the cash crop of the Caribbean

Plantation Life

1. Freeholds

   1. Land owned in its entirety without taxes
   2. Headright system → amass tons of land by bringing slaves and indentured servants

2. Economic Boom

   1. Tobacco causes an economic boom
   2. Large land owners get richer

3. Life

   1. Hard for both the rich and poor
   2. Not a lot of women in the colonies

4. Indentured Servitude

   1. They worked for no pay for an agreed period of time
   2. Indentured servants were very valuable, many contracts were sold
   3. Many indentured servants never escaped poverty after their contracts ended

5. African Laborers

6. Gradual and instant change to slave labor based on location

7. Africans lose rights after tobacco boom collapse