Rights

The religious society for friends is a movement that began in England in the 17th century. The Society of Friends (Quakers), while always small in membership, has been influential in the history of reform. The state of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn in 1682, as a safe place for Quakers to live and practice their faith. Quakers have been a significant part of the movements for the abolition of slavery; promote equal rights for women, and peace. They also promoted education for people of all ages, and played a central role in forging the industrial revolution. The Quaker faith was not accepted in the new world. Many members of the Friends church were executed, whipped, imprisoned, and banished by the Puritans. If you tried you preach your faith to any one person you were punished harshly. The Protestants are, however, known to be more violent unlike the Quakers. They tend to try to force their religion on you. If you are anything but a Protestant, you are most likely to be imprisoned or killed. Protestantism is one of the three major groupings (Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism) within Christianity. Being a Protestant in the New World was important to society. If your family owned a bible, you were looked upon as "high class."
 * __ Quakers and Protestants __**



**__ Settlers and their Treatment of the African Slaves __** In a place like Jamestown where tobacco was their chief source of income, it was clear that they were going to need a lot of help growing the tobacco. At first, indentured servants were used as the needed labor. These servants provided up to seven years of free service and had their trip to Jamestown paid for by someone in Jamestown. Once the seven years was over, the indentured servant was free to live in Jamestown as a regular citizen. However, colonists began to see indentured servant as too costly, and in 1619, Dutch traders brought the first African slaves to Jamestown. Until the early 18th century, African slaves were difficult to acquire in the colonies that became the United States, as most were sold in the West Indies. One of the first major establishments of African slavery in these colonies occurred with the founding of Charles Town and South Carolina in 1670. The English colonies desperately needed these slaves to do their gruesome work. And the settlers intimidated them into doing so. The slaves would be beaten, starved, raped, and on occasion even killed. If you tried to run away, or if you protested against doing a task, you were beaten and humiliated in front of the other slaves. That frightened the other slaves into not disobeying their master. Women slaves often carried the children of their master, that way the master could own her children, grandchildren and so on. African slaves were also immune to many diseases, one of those being malaria. That was very valuable to the English colonies because they were prone to getting extremely ill. The natives of North America had no immunity for sickness, which was useless to the settlers especially in the sugar trade because they got sick with malaria and died in large numbers. That was a big contribution to why the colonies wanted African slaves, because they wanted their workers to have immunity to illnesses. Distribution of slaves (1519–1867]||~ Destination
 * ~ Percentage ||
 * Portuguese America || 38.5% ||
 * British America (minus North America) || 18.4% ||
 * Spanish Empire || 17.5% ||
 * French Americas || 13.6% ||
 * British North America || 6.45% ||
 * English Americas || 3.25% ||
 * Dutch West Indies || 2.0% ||
 * Danish West Indies || 0.3% ||

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