Christopher Columbus first discovered corn in 1492 in Cuba. He was gifted corn from the Indians and brought it back to Europe, specifically Spain. Within a few years, it spread throughout France, Italy, all of southeastern Europe, and northern Africa. By 1575, it made its way into western China. It was often used as food for animals as well as humans in these regions.
The people of Virginia couldn’t grow enough of it, but didn’t resort to slavery right away. Slaves were few in the area, only a few that were bought there from the Caribbean, where they were often used for sugar cane. With the increasing demand for tobacco, the southern colonies needed a bigger labor force. Farmers and indentured servants couldn’t keep up with the demand for tobacco. Slaves were very successful for growing sugar cane, so eventually the southern colonies called for them to be bought over.
Many Americans believed that there was only the black slavery. Yet until the 1660’s indentured servitude was the common way in the colonies. With the establishment of European colonies in America, it was quickly found that there was too much work for the settlers to do by themselves. The Jamestown settlement had the first indentured servants arriving within the first decade. [1]In the beginning the Virginia Company of London would pay to have servants transported across the Atlantic Ocean.
He wanted to make sure that they had a good place to live. So he built them a town now known as Hershey, Pennsylvania. The town had houses, schools, churches, theaters, swimming pools, a sports arena called “Hershey stadium,” a wild life center, a zoo, a museum, hotels, a post office, and a famous amusement park called, of course, “Hershey park” (“My name is Milton…”) The Hershey Company has nearly 11,000 employees. The net income of Hershey in 2007 was just about $214 million, (“The Hershey Company”) Hershey has a very wide variety of products such as: Almond Joy, Breath Savers, Bubble Yum, Fast Break, Good and Plenty candy, Heath, Ice Breakers, Jolly Ranchers, Kissables, Kit kat, Milk duds, Mounds, Mr.Goodbar, Nutrageous, Payday, Pot Of Gold, Reese’s, Rolo, Symphony, Take 5, Twizzlers, Whatchamacallit, Whoppers, and York (“Hershey Company”). Hershey is a great company.
The English believed that the Native Americans were not making the land yield enough fruit and this perceived shortcoming caused the natives to forfeit their right to the land. From this mindset the English decided that they would not make slaves of the Indians but give the Native Americans an “opportunity to work, to pay taxes to the commonweal, to become Christian, and to learn how to make the land more productive-so that they would ultimately be better off than they were before (p. 36).” Despite the “Christian- sentiments” of the colonists, cruelty in colonial America raged. After failing to cultivate the land properly, the English colonists were desperate for food. Although they could have traded with the natives for food, “President” John Smith decided that the colonists would go into the native villages and take the
Unity or independence was very important to the colonists before the Revolutionary War because they didn’t have the rights we do today. Colonists couldn’t trade with the world, weren’t protected of their rights, imposed taxes, and a lot more. The king of the colonies had treated them with a lot of disrespect. He had not given them any freedom whatsoever, and had just made them follow his unjust rules and law. Although they knew the consequences or punishments for doing so, the colonists had found ways to smuggle.
The inability between the blacks and the whites to verbally communicate meant that issues of knowledge, values and laws created conflicts of misunderstanding, frustration, violence and stealing. The Thornhills first moved to their new home at ‘Thornhill’s Point’, and this was where their first encounters and troubles with the blacks began. Will tried to communicate with them; however, one was just speaking ‘meaningless words’ to the other. Will tried to explain that this was now his own new piece of land and they had ‘all the rest’. Through the lack of communication and different values, the blacks could not comprehend this as their way of life was to share everything, including land and food.
Dimock, provided the world with a firsthand account of what Spanish Cuba was like during the mid-19the century. Joseph J. Dimock had married into a family who owned a Cuban sugar plantation. Dimock was one of many Americans who showed interest in Cuba, and in February and March 1859, Dimock traveled to Cuba and recorded his experience within his diary. His itinerary on the island took him from Havana to Regla, Matanzas, Cardenas, and Recreo and then all along the north coast of the provinces of Havana and Matanzas. Through his diary Dimock reveals the island’s lush tropical beauty as well as his political and racial views, which were shared by many Americans at the time.
Adapted by the first set of conquistadors, encomiendas serve as a base to control natives in New Espanola. Nevertheless, natives in both Mesoamerica and the Andeans region have been already providing agricultural and labor tributes to their native lords. For example, aztecs would own slaves who could buy their freedom through labor. The Incas had their servers collect tributes around the ayllus to maintain a reciprocity system around the empire. After the conquest and through the declined of the natives surrounding their overworked and poorer conditions, Spaniards did but little to care at the expense of their wealth.
Colonists in Virginia were more concerned about wealth than they were with surviving and learning how to live off of the land. John Rolfe discovered a strain of tobacco leaf that sold well England, but there were still very few settlers willing to take the responsibility to start plantations and labor in the abundance of fields. Indentured servants became the first solution to this problem. Poor, lower