Description : What percent of American slaves in 1750 lived in the southern colonies?
Last Answer : Need answer
Description : Why were southern and Caribbean colonies most dependent on slaves labor?
Last Answer : Their climate an soil were suited to large farms
Description : Which colonies first imported slaves in 1619?
Last Answer : Virginia
Description : Did an American slave owner provide food and clothing to his slaves?
Last Answer : You probably need to read some books to get a detailed answer to this but yes the slave owner provided food and clothing or the materials to make food and clothing to the enslaved. ... about slavery and abolitionists is The Invention of Wings about the abolitionist sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimke.
Description : Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiri to the American movement to free slaves? -History
Last Answer : Jyotirao Phule wrote a book in 1873. He named the book Gulamgiri meaning slavery. Some ten years before this, the American Civil War had been fought, leading to the end of slavery in America. ... establish a link between the conditions of the lower castes in India and the black slaves in America.
Description : What cultural institutions did African-American slaves develop to embrace to help cope with their enslavement?
Description : Why did members of the American Colonization Society want to send freed slaves to Africa?
Description : How might African American in the free states to the closest to the south be affected by the growing slaves in the States near them?
Last Answer : Feel Free to Answer
Description : What country has its capital city named James and was founded free American slaves?
Last Answer : What is the answer ?
Description : Where did most American slaves end up working in North America?
Description : In which year were American colonies declared independence from Great Britain
Last Answer : July 4, 1776
Description : What year were the first enslaved Africans brought to American colonies?
Last Answer : 1619
Description : What effect did the great awakening have on the American colonies?
Last Answer : The Great Awakening notably altered the religious climate in the American colonies. Ordinary people were encouraged to make a personal connection with God, instead of relying on a minister. Newer denominations, such as Methodists and Baptists, grew quickly.
Description : What 2 agricultural products did the American colonies and the west indies exchange?
Last Answer : I don’t know
Description : What required American colonies to supply England with raw materials and a market for finish goods?
Last Answer : Navigation acts
Description : What was one reason that the colonists represented Texas was that the American colonies had no representation in Parliament?
Description : What was an effect of Spain's regulation of trade in its American colonies?
Last Answer : Spanish colonies could only export their raw materials to Spainor other Spanish colonies, and had to purchase manufacturedproducts only from Spain.This was typical of European colonies under the system ofmercantilism.
Description : What war was a turning point for the original American colonies?
Description : How did immigration contribute to the ethnic diversity of American colonies after 1700?
Last Answer : Spanish, English, and French settlers arrived in larger numbersand this increased the ethnic diversity in the Americancolonies.
Description : What is A factor in the choice of labor used in the American colonies was that?
Description : Why were English criminals brought tot the American colonies?
Description : How was the conflict between great Britain and the American colonies?
Last Answer : the taxes
Description : In the 1600s, the American colonies passed many laws that affected the rights and activities of specific groups of people. Which of the-following was one of these laws?
Last Answer : Marriages between people of different races were banned.
Description : In the American colonies, newspapers took second place to news gathered by social interaction because _____.?
Last Answer : Censorship by English governors were common, meaning the newspapers were scarce or did not contain much info.
Description : Why were the American colonies founded?
Last Answer : why
Description : The North American colonies enjoyed economic success because of: (a) Hardworking populations (b) The practice of monoculture on plantations (c) The use of slave labour (d) All of these (e) None of these
Last Answer : (c) The use of slave labour
Description : Do those who want to be billionaires without contributing to society unconsciously want people to be their slaves?
Last Answer : Of course,and don’t forget those slaves should just be happy to have a job.
Description : What do you think of the idea of paying reparations to the descendants of slaves?
Last Answer : First - this will never pass. @LostInParadise: Are they going to give money to all slave descendants, including the wealthy? Besides not happening, the idea of what form reparations would take is ... just another injustice. Slavery is not history. It's the foundation that we all walk on today.
Description : In this Twilight Zone scenario where present-day white Americans wake up one day owning black slaves again, what do you think will happen?
Last Answer : Instant uprising?
Description : Is it fair to say that most working people in the United States today are in fact slaves to Wall Street?
Last Answer : Only if you use a grossly distorted meaning for the word slave, overlooking the fact most workers are free to move about as we please and free to choose what and how much we wish to consume. So, NO.
Description : Could the goverment retroactively pay slaves descendants for damages and for pay while working on the plantations and farms ?
Last Answer : Could the government? Sure, if they wanted to. But there are some pretty big issues to deal with. 1) where would the money come from? Why should taxpayers in 2018 pay for something that happened in the ... It would be a wild-assed guess at best. Bottom line - it's utterly unrealistic in every way.
Description : [Fluff time] In the Matrix who were really the slaves and who was really free?
Last Answer : if you watched the additional material, you would know that it is the machines that voluntarily enslaved themselves to humanity. when the machines became self aware, they rose up to achieve their own freedom ... to toil away for the sake of their creators, even though the humans did not deserve it.
Description : Did Negro slaves build the White House as Michelle Obama says?
Last Answer : I believe on this subject we have to get this one right…. no generalizations or dummy answers.
Description : Were there ever Spanish slaves in the Caribbean?
Last Answer : answer:You're asking two separate questions. 1. Were there ever Spanish slaves in the Caribbean? Yes you bet your bottom dollar there were. Why do you think they speak Spanish? A long time ago, ... but there are hundres of thousands of books in regards to Spanish history. Every major empire has. :]
Description : What does the government owe to the descendants of slaves?
Last Answer : answer:First, we (the citizens of the US)owe them nothing. If anyone owes anything, it is the descendants of the slave owners (i.e. Thomas Jefferson's great-great-great grandson). But even that is a hard case ... - to be a victim. It's a copout, and dishonest. At worst, it's an excuse for failure.
Description : African Americans: How does it feel to come from a heritage where there were slaves in your ancestry in the U.S.A.?
Last Answer : answer:I don't know if your question is specifically directed toward African Americans because that is exclusively your area of interest, or because it seems like the easiest demographic to tap into on a ... into slave labor, and my life has been touched by these stories on a very personal level.
Description : Are illegal immigrants the "new slaves" in America?
Last Answer : Some treat them like slaves, and to squeeze the most work out of them for the least wages, subject them to slave-like working conditions. Which to me is a far greater moral violation than the illegal immigrant who came here to try to support his family.
Description : Were the Ancient Egyptian temples and monuments built by slaves?
Last Answer : answer: Hem (Hm), generally translated as slave' and originally meaning body, was seemingly a person with lessened rights dedicated to a certain task such as the service of a god (since the 1st dynasty ... set free after serving for a certain period. You can read all about slavery in Egypt here
Description : Wouldn't bartering actually make slaves of many people?
Last Answer : Bartering will only work on a friend to friend basis and not for the government. you are correct in some of your own questions. governments could not exist, without taxes. just think of the ... people not fullfiling their obligations to each other. we do not live in a trustworthy world, anymore.
Description : Do cats think of their owners as their slaves?
Last Answer : My two cats know they are the rulers of the universe.
Description : Were there Egyptian slaves?
Last Answer : Yes there were slaves. The Hebrews which were eventually set free by Moses.
Description : Would you still buy from a company if you knew that their products were made by child slaves or any kind of slavery?
Last Answer : No, I would not. That being said, I am embarrassingly uninformed about how the products I buy are manufactured. So maybe I am supporting child slavery and don’t know it.
Description : Is wage labor kind of like "slaves for rent"?
Last Answer : No, because the laborer gets to negotiate his own price and to decide whether or not he will work for that wage.
Description : Can you tell me the name of this movie about women keeping men as slaves?
Last Answer : Gene Roddenberry’s Planet Earth starting John Saxon and Diana Muldar. It was a sequel to Genesis II. Both movies were failed TV pilots.
Description : If time itself was an element of existance (and not independant of it), and the manipulation of time was possible, wouldn't it also mean that we have always been the slaves to destiny?
Last Answer : Either im too stupid to anwser the question or it requires more explanation. But ill give it a shot anyway as it sounds like an interesting question to me. If there was a big bang and then a big ... for all eternity. In that case we have always been enslaved to our destiny and we will always be.
Description : Did members of your family "own" slaves?
Last Answer : I know that neither the branch of my family that's been here since the 1600s nor the branch of my family that came over in the early 1800s owned slaves on this continent. I don't think they ... slaves before that, as they lived in countries where slavery was illegal, but I couldn't say for certain.
Description : Electronic Slaves?
Last Answer : I cannot live without my iPhone. Yes it is scary.
Description : Can you draw a distinction between a monument celebrating a person who had slaves (Edward Colston) and a monument that lead to the deaths of 1000s of slaves (the Great Pyramid)?
Last Answer : Believe it or not, we even know what the workers who built the pyramids ate, and they were well fed for the time. They weren’t slaves. Hell, they were probably treated better than manual workers today, and I bey they had better health and safety standards too. But no hard hats.
Description : 6. Why do you think slaves and servants were ill-treated? Do you think the orders of the emperor would have improved their condition? Give reasons for your answer. -History
Last Answer : I think that slaves and servants were ill-treated because no political authority or socio-economic organisation had favoured proper treatment for slaves and servants. They were supposed to do all ... got proper wages and better treatment. Their duty hours and working conditions would have improved.