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Essay by 2016 Arcadia Fellow Teresa McCulla. Slavery is central to the history of colonial North America. For more than two centuries, European Americans treated enslaved men, women, and children as objects that could be bought and sold . [i] Harvard’s digitized collections can help scholars understand how the institution of slavery suffused ...
American Enlightenment Thought. Although there is no consensus about the exact span of time that corresponds to the American Enlightenment, it is safe to say that it occurred during the eighteenth century among thinkers in British North America and the early United States and was inspired by the ideas of the British and French Enlightenments.
In South Carolina, the figure increased from 20,000 in 1730 to 97,000 in 1780, with slaves comprising a majority of the population for the whole of the eighteenth century. In Georgia, the number of slaves rose from less than 1,000 in 1750, when slavery was legalized, to over 20,000 in 1780. And in North Carolina the slave population went from ...
Front page of the Philadelphische Zeitung. The Germans in America, 1732 By the middle of the 18th century, German immigrants occupied a central place in American life. Germans accounted for one-third of the population of the American colonies, and were second in number only to the English. The German language was widely spoken in nearly every colonial city and was circulated in locally ...
Long-term food storage was critical to the 18th-century household. During the colonial era, the coming of autumn did not just mean changing leaves and cooler temperatures: it was also time to preserve the harvest. Fresh produce could only be enjoyed during the growing season, so colonists would intentionally grow an overabundance of food and ...
18th Century America. Learn about all the major events in the History of American during the 18th Century, from 1701 when the Foundations of Yale University were laid, until late into the century with the start of the construction of the white house in 1790.
Apr 12, 2021 · Religious diversity in America and attendant conflicts continued throughout the 18th century but after the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s – a spiritual revivalist movement encouraging a personal relationship with God – Protestant Rationalism prevailed among the upper classes which eventually began to influence those below them.
