HIST205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Southern Colonies, American Quarter Horse, Landed Gentry
3 Apr 2013
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Colonial settlements: plymouth colony (christmas 1621) Folk games: stool ball, quoits, skittles or nine pins. Violent games: wrestling & cudgeling, cock-throwing & cock fighting, bull baiting. Sports fulfilling social needs: mating rituals, expression of social resentment, promote village unity. Reinforcing social hierarchy: upper ranks(only certain persons were allowed to participate in certain sports, world of commercialized leisure, blood sports . The puritan attack: protestant reformers, puritan revolution of 1641, puritan parliament (1641-1660) Puritans in the north american: sabbatarian laws (sabbath, lawful and unlawful sport in new england. Sports was okay as long as you weren"t taking it to personally. Standards of lawful pastimes: colonial legislation. Military training: new york city, the quakers. Sports in the southern colonies: less restrictive way of life, more tolerant church of england, landed gentry, southern planters. Lower social ranks in the south: hanover county fair, virginia (1737)
