Misconceptions About Colonial American History

Although there are several misconceptions regarding colonial time in American history, there is widespread understanding of slavery based on conditions that existed just prior to the Civil War; however, one of the most common misconceptions is that slavery was an exclusively a Southern institution prior to the American Revolution. Obliquely, all 13 British colonies in North America depended on slavery. The introduction of tobacco market in 1620 Virginia under white servants to perform the arduous labor. Before the establishment of slavery in 1675, only a fraction of plantations held slaves. While most slaves were found in Southern states, slavery extended to middle and Northern colonies such as New England, Boston, Philadelphia and New York. Slaves in urban areas were used in several different areas; for instance, “domestic servants, artisans, craftsmen, sailors, dock workers, laundresses, and coachmen.” Few slaveholders would rent out their slaves to collect their wages; as for household slaves had a high social …show more content…
Furthermore, slaves were property and as such they were part of their owner’s wealth; Southern slaveholders had a greater investment in slaves; nonetheless, “Northerners, too, had significant portions of their wealth tied up in their ownership of enslaved people.”
As the economy improved in Britain, the White enslaved servants …show more content…
During the1630s, the Pequots resided in the Connecticut River Valley, which was a fertile land wanted by the colonizers from the Plymouth and Massachusetts