Question

Explain how issues of race, gender, and social class shaped the lives of those living in the Americas from pre contact/ exploration through the Revolutionary War

Answer 1

As an anti-tax campaign, the American revolution has focused on the freedom of Americans to manage their own land. The "property" included other human beings in the 18th century.

The Revolution confirmed American adherence to slavery in many respects. The Revolution, on the other hand, often focused on progressive new ideas about "liberty" and "freedom," which questioned the long history of intense human injustice of slavery. More plainly than any other issue, the reforms to slavery in the Progressive Period showed both the opportunity for drastic reform and its collapse.

During the late-18th century, slavery was a core practise of American society, and was embraced by many white Americans as natural and embraced as a good thing. In the Revolutionary Period, however, this wide recognition of slavery (which was never committed to by black Americans) began to be questioned. The problem came from many directions, partly from Progressive values, partly from a new religious biblical commitment that emphasised the freedom of all Christians, and partly from a decrease in tobacco 's viability in Virginia's most prominent slave area and neighbouring states.

There was a major trend toward freeing certain slaves particularly in the South. The free black population rose steadily in states where tobacco manufacture no longer required vast numbers of slaves. By 1810, one third of Maryland's African American population was free, and free blacks outnumbered enslaved African Americans by three to one in Delaware. In the 1780s and 1790s, also in the strong slave state of Virginia, the free black population rose more quickly than ever before. A variety of public institutions were created for themselves by this big new free black community, who typically used the term "African" to convey their distinctive pride and emphasis on freedom.