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Spanish Colonies• Divide and
conquer• Alliances with
converts• Total war on
holdouts• biological factors
• Divide and conquer
• Alliances with converts
• Total war on holdouts
• biological factors
Spanish Colonies
• Exploitative Integration
• Indenturing Native Americans
• Forced conversion• Replacement with
African slaves
• Exploitative Integration
• Indenturing Native Americans
• Forced conversion• Replacement with
African slaves
Spanish Colonies• More Spanish men
than women– rape of Native and
African women– the image of the
savage woman– call for polygamy
& concubines– despised mulattos
and mestizos
• More Spanish men than women
– rape of Native and African women
– the image of the savage woman
– call for polygamy & concubines
– despised mulattos and mestizos
Spanish Borderlands
• Conquerors and “Civilizers”Explored in 16th c.Colonized in 17th c.
• Conquerors and “Civilizers”Explored in 16th c.Colonized in 17th c.
Indians, Slavery and Africans• Just War Theory• The Encomienda
system• Slavery and
Christianity
• Just War Theory• The Encomienda
system• Slavery and
Christianity
Valladolid 1547
• Natural Law• Gines de
Sepulveda• Bartolome de las
Casas
• Natural Law• Gines de
Sepulveda• Bartolome de las
Casas
New France• Port Royal Nova
Scotia 1605• Quebec founded by
Champlain 1608• by 1635 about 100
French in Quebec• Company of 100,
1630’s1757=65k pop
• Port Royal Nova Scotia 1605
• Quebec founded by Champlain 1608
• by 1635 about 100 French in Quebec
• Company of 100, 1630’s
1757=65k pop
New France
French Colonies• Low Conflict
Orientation• Trade
Orientation– gift exchange
• Jesuit Intellectualism
• Low Conflict Orientation
• Trade Orientation
– gift exchange
• Jesuit Intellectualism
French Colonies
• Alliances and Politics• Indian-French Intermarriage
• Alliances and Politics• Indian-French Intermarriage
The Noble Savage
• Almost no French women• Intermarriage with Native women• Stereotype of the “noble savage”• The Metis
• Almost no French women• Intermarriage with Native women• Stereotype of the “noble savage”• The Metis
The English Colonies:
The English Colonies
• North-South Split
– Geography– Climate– natural
transport
• North-South Split
– Geography– Climate– natural
transport
New England
Virginia
English Colonies• The Pragmatic
Approach• Initial
dependence on Natives
– mine and thine• birth of the
reservation
–development begets conflict
• The PragmaticApproach
• Initial dependence on Natives
– mine and thine• birth of the
reservation
–development begets conflict
English Colonies
• Most Women Settlers
• Emerging prohibition on intermarriage
• Both savage myths• eventual hierarchy• Mothers’ and
children’s races
• Most Women Settlers
• Emerging prohibition on intermarriage
• Both savage myths• eventual hierarchy• Mothers’ and
children’s races
The Southern Colonies• Jamestown : 1606• Royally chartered
corporations• Claims extended
to Pacific: 1609• Powhattan war
1624 &1644• Catholic grants in
Carolinas: 1664
• Jamestown : 1606• Royally chartered
corporations• Claims extended
to Pacific: 1609• Powhattan war
1624 &1644• Catholic grants in
Carolinas: 1664
New England• The New Eden• The Savage
Wilderness• Rapid immigration
• The New Eden• The Savage
Wilderness• Rapid immigration
The Northern Colonies• Massachusetts Bay
to “Religious Non-conformists:” 1622
• Mass Bay corp. 1629• Migration 1630-40• Expansion into
Connecticut 1640’s• Prince Phillip and
Wampanoag war 1680
• Massachusetts Bay to “Religious Non-conformists:” 1622
• Mass Bay corp. 1629• Migration 1630-40• Expansion into
Connecticut 1640’s• Prince Phillip and
Wampanoag war 1680
Churches in 1650
• Religious diversity
• Colonial ID
• Religious diversity
• Colonial ID
Colonial Ethnography
Protestant Anxiety
• Individual calling – Conscience– Predestination – Lacked
principal of order
• Signs of Election– Frugality– Hard work– Sobriety
• Individual calling – Conscience– Predestination – Lacked
principal of order
• Signs of Election– Frugality– Hard work– Sobriety
The Indians as “Savages.”
• rich material lives• rich and fluid
cultural lives• Wayward
Puritans
• rich material lives• rich and fluid
cultural lives• Wayward
Puritans
Puritan Jeremiads
• Fall,• Punishment• Redemption• Indians and the D
evil
• Fall,• Punishment• Redemption• Indians and the D
evil