![]() ![]() In addition to all this, we get into the Salem Witch Trials, the treatment of women in the colonies, and colonial economics. ![]() So yeah, not quite an egalitarian paradise. And then their kids tended to take over when they died. It turns out that in spite of the lofty dream that everyone had an equal shot in the new world, there were elites in the colonies. John also takes on the idea of the classless society in America, and the beginning of the idea of the American dream. We venture as far south as the Carolina colonies, where the slave labor economy was taking shape. Of course, as soon as Penn died, the colonist started abusing the natives immediately. Pennsylvania was (briefly) a haven of religious freedom, and William Penn dealt relatively fairly with the natives his colony displaced. John also discusses Penn's Woods, also known as Pennsylvania. Before the English got there though, the colony was full of Dutch people who treated women pretty fairly and allowed free Black people to hold jobs. Why they changed it, I can say ENGLISH people just liked it better that way, and when the English took New Amsterdam in 1643, that's just what they did. In which John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachusetts. ![]()
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