1) How did the English colonist get the idea of colored people being cursed by God, and how did many colonist believe that it is the right thing to say and believe in?
Back then, people believed that that the color white stood for purity and grace and goodness. It meant righteous, so it would be logical for them to think that darker skinned people are evil and bad. That’s why they were slaved to white people and that’s why they had to work so hard in the sun.
2) How did the English colonists handle the act of another colonist fornicating with an African?
They created a law in 1622 that said if u fornicates with a African then you had to pay a double fine. Which is kind of funny that the punishment was financially based, it’s almost like prostitution. In the north, it probably would be much more looked down upon then it was in the south
3) How did the English colonists manage to gain both peace and land from the Native Americans?
- The colonist believed they were superior to the Indians and this gave them the courage to fight, they were not afraid of taking what was “rightfully theirs”. The Indians would usually be killed in a fight or because of a disease which just naturally gave more room for the colonist
4) Do you think that the fact that English colonist believed they were superior to the Indians gave them courage and strength to fight Indians for more and more land?
- They thought they were better than the Indians because of their skin color and there God. They believed they were favored by God to take the land because there skin was purer than the Indians so to them the land was like an unopened present, they just had to unwrap it and claim it.
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