And if you weren't, well you most likely are now, so you're in the right place. Jamestown was located in present-day Virginia near the coast. Most of the original settlers were poor 17-35 year olds, looking for a chance to make money. Unfortunately, a great number of them did not survive their attempts and died of one of many possible reasons. Many of the early Jamestown settlers died as a result of rampant disease, dissatisfactory relationships with the natives and a terrible inclination to be
Jamestown was the first permanent settlement for Britain, established in 1607 on the Virginian coast. In theory, it should have been a highly successful settlement. However through the combination of environmental, food, and human is used, it barely survived. The main issue was that caused the destruction of Jamestown was, ultimately, human error. For example, when they first arrived, they spend several months searching for gold instead of building homes. This is just one of the several terrible
periods of the human kind where people from African continent were sold to the white settlers in the United States. Based on research it was evident that the white Christianity supported the establishment of the continuation of slavery in America. This paper is a study of the history on how the white Christiana helped and also offered support to the American slavery. The paper will discuss how the black community was oppressed the
Afro-American Culture: From Slave Music to Jazz and Blues American music today is a wide range of genres. Most of the genres has its root in the music the slaves brought with them in the beginning of the seventeenth century. Genres like Jazz, blues, Gospel and Hip-Hop, which is well-known all over the world today, is mainly influenced by the African-American culture and music. Especially the work songs, or the “hollers”, that the slaves sung while working on the fields and the negro spirituals, which