Colonial America

A New World of Goods

Dr. Kane

mkane2@albany.edu Social Science 116 | MWF 12:35-1:30 PM

Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30 Social Science 60S

Friday, September 15

coming up

  • Objects paper due Monday Sept 25 (BB)
  • OPTIONAL feedback via Blackboard
  • EC: Sept 28 11:30 Hum 290 Charlottesville roundtable

today's class

  • writing advice
  • what meanings are attached to objects
  • varieties of unfreedom

why shouldn't I write . . .

  • "Since time immemorial," "Throughout history"
  • "Europeans have always," "Natives have always"
  • "All Europeans thought"
  • females/males

in general

  • watch out for ten dollar words
  • write for someone else in class
  • write for clarity
  • structure is argument
  • how and why, not who, what, where

Material Atlantic

  • how did geography and religious beliefs shape cultural clothing norms in various regions?
  • how did the cloth trade facilitate other kinds of trade?

Coffee Cantata - Bach

Aztec chocolate

aztec
aztec

Spanish chocolate

spanish
spanish

Chocolatiers

paris
paris

the consumer revolution

  • working class Europeans work more to buy more
  • manufacturing techniques industrialize
  • manufactured goods become cheaper
  • unemployment in Europe rises, driving immigration

culture of credit

  • very few people can access cash!
  • importance of a "good name"
  • long-distance trade both individual and corporate

youth culture & print culture

  • fear of "masterless men"
  • wider circulation of news via coffee and chocolate houses
  • false, idealized, or exaggerated accounts of Americas

triangle trade

triangle
triangle

slave trade

slavery
slavery

varieties of unfreedom

  • Iroquois captivity/adoption
  • French "Panis"
  • Esopus, 1639
  • Iroquois French galley slaves, 1685
  • 24 in Jamestown 1607 & 300 in New Amsterdam 1625

Albany, 1686

yates
yates

Yates map

New Netherland & slavery

  • West Indian Company & corporate charter 1614 - 1664
  • "half freedom"
  • freedom by baptism
  • initially non-racial
  • colony =/= colonialism

early New World slavery

  • slavery as "intimate"
  • small-scale agricultural or domestic work
  • enslaved people in skilled trades
  • isolation vs. community