Along with the amount of despair caused in their home countries, the natives were often forced to go to their “parent country” in order to be slaves. This occurrence was certainly not by …show more content…
The Commons was described as a large open forest area that was open for anyone to utilize. In the modern world, there is no such thing as a Commons. With Andy’s lecture I can understand the comparison between the peasants of old England and the peasants of modern “poor” countries. The peasants of England were pictured as helpless, but even through all these adversities, the Commons were a place to go if all else fails. Peasants of today have no similar options, but instead are shut out of society and left to protect themselves. Something that the two parties share is that both lived (or have lived) in a society that is dominated by the rich. The wealthy have the power to control the resources the poor have access to like how the Commons were taken from the