{"id":2598,"date":"2020-09-07T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2020-09-07T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T17:39:00","slug":"maddie-orr-9-9-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/07\/maddie-orr-9-9-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddie Orr – 9\/9 blog post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 3 and 4 of <\/span>A People\u2019s History of the United States<\/span><\/i> discuss the growth of class divisions that occurred within colonial America. I was very surprised when I read that more than one half of the colonists that came to North America came as servants and the majority of them either returned to their home country, died as servants, or became a part of the poor white class. This led to a sharp distinction of class that created many conflicts across lines. The lower, \u201cpoor\u201d class was doubling and created problems of crime and theft in cities which forced the building of housing and correctional offices to try and combat the issues. An interesting idea was brought up in \u201cPersons of Mean and Vile Condition\u201d when Zinn said, \u201cThe country therefore was not \u2018born free\u2019 but born slave and free, servant and master, tenant and landlord, poor and rich\u201d (50). This shows how there has always been a deep rooted division of people determining wealth, treatment, and placement in society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought an interesting trend throughout \u201cTyranny is Tyranny\u201d was the mindset of the \u201crich and important\u201d people of the colonies towards how to control the lower classes. They wanted to gain enough support to be able to defeat the British control over the colonies without ending slavery or erasing class lines. They did this through language that created anger and resistance towards England but also to avoid uprising of classes. The strategic and careful manipulation of language to the colonists was driven by the desire for power and wealth of the \u201cimportant people\u201d of colonial society. I think this is very interesting because this can be seen in many different aspects of life today. Class divisions, desire for power, and drive of wealth play a large role in today\u2019s society where many similarities can be seen between now and the colonial period. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chapter 3 and 4 of A People\u2019s History of the United States discuss the growth of class divisions that occurred within colonial America. I was…<\/p>\n

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