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Professor McClure requires his students to create a journal enrty over each chapter they cover, this is journal enrty 3....

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Abbey Thomas Professor McClure American History 1 September 14, 2018 Journal Entry Ch. 3 If all the information from chapter 3 were lost to future generations, an event I would save would be how slave labor replaced indentured servant labor. Even though forced native labor was common in New Spain, English colonists failed in enlisting Indian labor. They instead turned to a source of work used by the Spanish and Portuguese: enslaved Africans (The American Promise, pg.68). “European colonizers built African Slavery into the most important form of coerced labor in the New World” (The American Promise, pg.68). Following the Spanish and Portuguese, English colonies in the West Indies developed sugar plantations with slave labor. In North America, slave labor systems had not emerged, they would begin emerging in the last quarter of the seventeenth century. During the 1670s, Barbados settlers brought slavery to the new English mainland colony of Carolina (The American Promise, pg.68). “In Chesapeake tobacco fields at about the same time, slave labor began to replace servant labor, marking the transition toward a society of freedom for whites and slavery for Africans” (The American Promise, pg.68). I would save this event because it is important to know how the enslavement of Africans came to replace the indentured servant system. This event details how the English colonists followed the examples of the Spanish and Portuguese in enslaving Africans. This event in history is important because it’s a marking point for when slavery began. This event from chapter 3

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would teach future generations how and when slavery of Africans began as well as the freedom for Caucasian people. Another event I would save from chapter 3 for future generations would be the colonization of Barbados in the 1630s. I would choose to save this event as well because it will inform the future generations about the history of slavery. It teaches future generations how the enslavement of Africans in Barbados came to be.

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References Roark, J., Johnson, M., Cohen, P., Stage, S., & Hartmann, S. The American Promise (5th ed.). Boston New York....