GINS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Renaissance Humanism, Scientific Method, Philosophical Movement
10 Nov 2016
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Puritans; city upon a hill (1620) - mayflower ship, thinks (protestant church for example) needs to be purified. Filles du roi en route to new france, 1663-1673. Free women of colour in the french west indies, c. 1700s. Depends - native peopels tended to have better relations with the french. Shared - assumptions of racial superiority, religious justifications, use of slave labour, blending of european, indigenous, and african cultural elements. Very hierarchical based on race, class: planters, oversees, skilled, house, field hands. Enslaved worked in fields and as domestics: skilled and unskilled. Enslaved often forbidden to read, gather in groups. Autonomy: retained foodways, cultural practices, sabotage, rebellion, maroons curious case of religion. % of population enslaved in the thirteen colonies, c. 1750. Philosophical movement inspired by renaissance humanism and the scientific revolution. (cid:1445)how are we to live? (cid:1446) optimism. Benjamin franklin - the colonist par excellence. Declaration of rights of man and citizens.
