Chapter 3: Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society

Chapter 3: Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society focuses on:


 * New England culture
 * Chesapeake Bay culture
 * Slavery in the colonies
 * Colonial commerce and trade
 * Political revolts

Section Headings

 * 1) Introduction: Families in an Atlantic Empire (63)
 * 2) Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century (64)
 * 3) Immigrant Families and New Social Order (64)
 * 4) Commonwealth of Families (65)
 * 5) Women's Lives in Puritan New England (67)
 * 6) Social Hierarchy in New England (68)
 * 7) The Challenge of the Chesapeake Environment (69)
 * 8) Family Life at Risk (69)
 * 9) The Structure of Planter Society (71)
 * 10) Race and Freedom in British America (73)
 * 11) Roots of Slavery (73)
 * 12) Constructing African American Identities (77)
 * 13) Rise of a Commercial Empire (79)
 * 14) Response to Economic Competition (79)
 * 15) Regulating Colonial Trade (80)
 * 16) Colonial Factions Spark Political Revolt, 1676-1691 (81)
 * 17) Civil War in Virginia: Bacon's Rebellion (81)
 * 18) The Glorious Revolution in the Bay Colony (82)
 * 19) Contagion of Witchcraft (84)
 * 20) The Glorious Revolution in New York and Maryland (85)
 * 21) Conclusion: Local Aspiration within an Atlantic Empire (86)