New Light on the Chancery Side of Virginia's Evolution to Statehood

1968 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin K. Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Early American ◽  
American Colonies

The assertion that ‘Equity in the early American colonies is a subject that still awaits complete research’ is more true of some colonies than of others. Because of marked differences in founding and internal growth, the colony-by-colony approach has been conceded to be appropriate; but this piecemeal approach has resulted in the overwriting of Massachusetts's meagre and testy involvement with the chancery style of justice, while Virginia's much richer involvement has received too little treatment.

An Analysis of Symbolic Images in The Scarlet Letter

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1725
Author(s):  
Haihong Gao
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Scarlet Letter ◽  
The Scarlet Letter ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
American Law ◽  
Deep Meaning ◽  
Symbolic Images

The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathanial Hawthorne in 1850, with the background of seventeenth Century of the early American colonies, taking the tragic love between pastor Arthur Dimmesdale and a woman named Hester's as content, which revealed the dim of American law, and hypocrisy of religion. So this novel filled with the religion plot and conveyed the humanity feelings. This paper focuses on the symbolic technique to analyze The Scarlet Letter. By rethinking and criticizing the Puritanism, this paper wants to reveal the dark side of man nature and arouse readers ’thought on morality. Predecessor researchers analyzed The Scarlet Letter from the aspects of feminist, religion and moral. But this paper turn view, it analyze the novel from symbolic images technique. This paper consists of three parts. The first part introduces the author, including his background, study and work experience, and the influence of his novels. The second part introduces the symbolism, including its definition and effect. In the third part, in order to reveal the hypocrisy of the religious at that time, to reveal the rebellious spirit of women, I will interpret the symbolic images from three aspects: the nature, color, time. Through the analysis of the symbolic images, readers can find the deep meaning of the context, which can strengthen people’s understanding of the characters, scenes and the plot of the novel. This can promote the comprehensive understanding of this greatest novel.

Early American Rebels

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noeleen McIlvenna
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Poor Whites ◽  
Connected Group ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Poor White ◽  
White Settlers ◽  
Bacon's Rebellion

During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in England’s North American colonies, poor white settlers in the Chesapeake sought a republic of equals. Demanding a say in their own destinies, rebels moved around the region looking for a place to build a democratic political system. This book crosses colonial boundaries to show how Ingle's Rebellion, Fendall's Rebellion, Bacon's Rebellion, Culpeper's Rebellion, Parson Waugh's Tumult, and the colonial Glorious Revolution were episodes in a single struggle because they were organized by one connected group of people. Adding land records and genealogical research to traditional sources, Noeleen McIlvenna challenges standard narratives that disdain poor whites or leave them out of the history of the colonial South. She makes the case that the women of these families played significant roles in every attempt to establish a more representative political system before 1700. McIlvenna integrates landless immigrants and small farmers into the history of the Chesapeake region and argues that these rebellious anti-authoritarians should be included in the pantheon of the nation’s Founders.

Great Grievance: Benjamin Franklin and Anti-Convict Sentiment

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-46
Author(s):  
Jennie Jeppesen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Newspaper Article ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Colonies

Abstract Perhaps the best known argument that the early American colonies despised convict labour was the Rattlesnake newspaper article penned by Benjamin Franklin. And yet, was there actually a wide-spread anti-convict sentiment? Or was Franklin a lone voice railing against perceived British insults? Framed around the claims made by Franklin, this article is an investigation of primary evidence from the colonies of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, in an attempt to better contextualize Franklins writing against colonial law and other colonial writers and correct the prevailing historical narrative that there was an anti-convict movement.

The Atlantic World

2019 ◽  
pp. 224-233
Author(s):  
David Sorkin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Early American Republic ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
The North ◽  
British Colonies ◽  
The Church

This chapter assesses how the Atlantic world of Dutch and British colonies followed the west European pattern of emancipation. Jews were spread across numerous colonies. The thirteen British colonies were not preponderant: each of the communities of “Curaçao, Surinam and Jamaica had more Jews in the mid-eighteenth century than all of the North American colonies combined.” In the British colonies of Canada, Jamaica, and the thirteen colonies, Jews achieved civil rights largely without controversy or conflict. In contrast, Jews organized and campaigned for political rights. In the early American republic, Jews received rights state by state, in Canada colony by colony. In the United States and Canada, political rights were linked to disestablishment of the church and the enactment of religious equality. In Jamaica, it was entwined with race relations.

Food Surpluses and Deficits in the American Colonies, 1768–1772

1971 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 553-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Klingaman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Quantitative Information ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich

Scholars are gradually piecing together the puzzle of the economic development of the American colonies through quantitative studies designed to clarify and measure economic variables having theoretical relevance for the wider process of economic growth and development. Recently, researchers such as Jones, Land, Shepherd, Walton, and Thomas have been helping others to build a base that one day may permit the writing of a comprehensive study of the process of early American economic development which may even include reliable estimates of economic growth and living standards. The data problems for the colonial period of American economic history are severe, and much of the research has tended to concentrate on the important role of international trade, where the extant data sources are capable of yielding rich lodes of quantitative information. Customs 16/1, entitled the Ledger of Imports and Exports for America, 1768–1772, has been the most valuable source of trade data, since it is the only comprehensive document which shows the trade of the American colonies with all parts of the world and not just with the British Isles. Still yet to be mined are the rich sources of data buried in the naval office lists for the various colonies. These sources also give the trade of each colony with all parts of the world although they are more tedious to work with than the better collated Customs 16/1.

Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 1006-1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
K-Sue Park
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Early American ◽  
Personal Property ◽  
American Colonies

In colonial America, land acquired new liquidity when it became liable for debts. Though English property law maintained a firm distinction between land and chattel for centuries, in the American colonies, the boundary between the categories of real and personal property began to disintegrate. There, the novelty of easy foreclosure and consequent easy alienation of land made it possible for colonists to obtain credit, using land as a security. However, scholars have neglected the first instances in which a newly unconstrained practice of mortgage foreclosure appeared—the transactions through which colonists acquired land from indigenous people in the first place. In this article, I explore these early transactions for land, which took place across fundamental differences between colonists' and native communities' conceptions of money, land, and exchange itself. I describe how difference and dependence propelled the growth of the early American contact economy to make land into real estate, or the fungible commodity on the speculative market that it remains today.

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