HOW CEREMONIES OF POSSESSION PRESAGED THE SPANIARD, ENGLISH AND FRENCH COLONIES

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HOW CEREMONIES OF POSSESSION PRESAGED THE SPANIARD, ENGLISH AND FRENCH COLONIES

The ceremonies of possession associated with the different colonies were very apparent in how they treated resided and co-habituated the land with the natives. They all treated the natives in their own distinct way. They all had different economics strategies they engaged in some being in regards to the mother countries, but most were in the self-interest of the colonists.

The ceremonies of possession greatly influenced the later development of their colonies. The Spaniards throughout time changed from being extremely aggressive to being lenient towards the natives.

The Spaniards were unethical when they first encountered the North American natives. They had no regard for the natives that had habituated that land for many years. The Spaniards simply read "The Requirement" and expected the natives to abide. The Spaniards not only believed that they owned the land, but the natives had to, "either accept Christian superiority voluntarily, or we will impose submission at the point of a sword or a harquebus" (Patricia Seed, 71). The Spaniards "created their rights to the New World through conquest not

"A vast abundance of virgin land together a paucity of settlers defined the problem in all the mainland colonies; everywhere, land was plentiful and labor scarce"(Kolchin, 55). The English colonies turned toward slavery to cultivate their land. Firstly, they turned toward other Europeans to become servants, this was very expensive and risky for the masters. A white slave could easily mix in with the general public and escape to a new village. This also occurred with natives. Where, "The proximity of the wilderness and of friendly tribes made escape relatively easy..."(Kolchin, 55). After the two natural sources of labour that appeared to be easiest to acquire failed, they turned towards Africa for labour. "As early as 1619 the forced labor of blacks supplemented that of whites in Virginia, and by the middle of the seventeenth century blacks were to be found in all the existing English colonies"(Kolchin, 56). The major downfall of slaves was their high mortality rate; and the high cost to import them. The major benefitting force that drove the slave trade was that if they initially survived they would probably have offspring; they also would be your property. The English colonies in which tobacco plantations were not feasible started to export rice. The rice grown by the slaves was exported to the mother country quite consistently as time progressed. The English then, "discovered rice, a crop that within a few years became as much a staple for them as tobacco was to the planters of the Cheseake" (Kolchin, 62).

The English changed quite drastically from being brothers to people of the land to slave drivers only looking for crops to export. They changed from farmers to plantation owners to seek profit wherever they could.

Under the system of forced labour known as the mita, in the viceroyalty of Peru, one-seventh of all formally free, unskilled Indian males over eighteen years of age were required each year to provide labor services to the Crown an dits delegates in the mines, on the ranches, on public work, and in the textile mills. The Indians were often forced to travel great distances, and the pay usually did not exceed the tribute dues they had to render. Conditions were particularly harsh..."(Rosenberg, 31)

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