1. Saints and Sinners in British North America
Colonial Societies and Economies,

2. Albion’s Seed—4 British Folkways
Puritans from East Anglia
Cavaliers from Southern England
Quakers from the North Midlands
Celts and Scots-Irish from Ireland, Scotland, and the North Country.
(N. B.: Scotch is a malted beverage; Scots are people!)

4. Changing Landscape
Colonial practices exacerbated the alterations in the landscape and in flora and fauna
British Populations (Black and White) increased dramatically
250,000 souls in 1700
2.5 million in 1775.
High birthrate
Lower death rate

5. Women and Work Femme Covert Patriarchal assumptions
If women were the “weaker vessel,” why did they survive all of the hard work.

6. Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793)
Managed large plantations in S. C.
Developed Indigo cultivation
Parented two important sons, Charles Cotesworth and Thomas
Republican Motherhood
George Washington was pallbearer at her funeral

7. Colonial Economics
Staple Crop and Slave labor based agriculture in the south
Mixed economies in the middle colonies
Shipping, small manufactures in Pa and NY
Shipping and fishing in New England
Niche economies—Naval Stores in N. C.

8. Colonial Labor Systems
Indentured Servitude for whites
Slavery for Africans
Slavery practiced in all colonies but predominated in South
Africans came from diverse regions, spoke different languages, and practiced different religions
Slave Culture (names, folktales, and religion)

9. British North America and the Atlantic Economy

10. Major Happenings and their Meanings
Salem Witch Hysteria (1692)
First Great Awakening (1730s-1760s)
The Enlightenment

11. Salem Witch Trials Thaumaturgy—major world view Maleus Maleficarum
Gender Issue
Generational Issue
Indian War on the Frontier—Mary Beth Norton Thesis
20 people executed

12. Witch Trials

13. First Great Awakening Sense of religious decline Jonathan Edwards
William Tennet
George Whitefield
Denominations split into old side and new side
Emergence of Evangelicalism
Pluralism

14. Jonathan Edwards

15. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God, whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder; and you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment.

16. George Whitefield

17. The Enlightenment Mechanical, natural explanations for phenomenon
Quest for discerning and then applying the laws of nature to human governance and society
Enlightenment in British North America focused more on finding practical solutions and inventions.

18. Benjamin Franklin Experiments with electricity Franklin Stove
Glass Harmonica
Lightning rod