Takaki Ch. 3

The author main thesis in this chapter is that their has been tons of slavery and servants that brought this country to what it is today. The best quote I could find that relates to this is:
Working in the textile mills of New England, Irish immigrant women manufactured fabric made from cotton grown on former Indian land and picked by enslaved blacks; meanwhile, Irish immigrant men labored in New England shoe factories, making shoes from hides shipped by Mexican workers in California. Chinese and Irish railroad workers laid the transportation tracks that closed the frontier and changed forever the lives of Indians in the West. America was becoming a nation of people from many different shores.
I think he was trying to say that the black population was mistreated throughout history, more than any other race, starting all the way back to the sixteen hundreds when the first blacks were used as translators for European traders.

The new world wasn't didn't always just have black people as slaves. In the very beginning, there were white and black indentured servants working off there ride to America. The white servants were mostly Irish people. They were sent over because they were thought to be the very lowest class in Ireland. Composed of mostly whores, peasants, and people who rather beg than work. So both white and black people worked in Virginia. Many problems arose with this mix of races working together though. They ran away together, they had sex and had mixed infants, and almost the majority of the population. This made the other class mad and afraid in Virginia, they didn't want them having sex, running away, and having the majority and creating a rebellion. A rebellion did occur though called Bacon's Rebellion. It was let by Nathaniel Bacon, and what turned into a mix race run at the Indians, led to a overthrow of Jamestown in the rebels favor. It was later taken back but fears of rebellion feared minds all the way up into the late seventeen hundreds. Where the Preventing Negroes Insurrection Act made it illegal for any black person to carry a weapon. Even are famous President Jefferson had 267 slaves and wasn'r afraid to punish them when time came during this time. But later he admitted he had done wrong and wanted freedom for the black slaves. There were only black slaves now because white servants only had to serve for a couple of years, whereas a black person was sentenced to life upon coming to America. The heirs to the black slaves then would be slaves too, so nothing really could ever be free with them. Thomas Jefferson had ideas though that would take all the blacks out of the United States, because he thought they could never live together without destroying the white population. He felt bad for all he did in the past and promised freedom once he was out of debt, but died in debt unfortunately. The United States eventually became free form England and had Market Revolution. This happened thanks to black slaves still and many other unfortunate minorities forming the country.

Would America ever be like it is today without the forced slavery we had over African Americans?
Do you think Thomas Jefferson's plan could have ever worked?

I didn't know that we had both white and black servants in the beginning years of this country. I still can't get over how shakespear's Tempest, keeps following to what happened in the new world. I feel sorry for the African Americans during the early days. They couldn't catch a break anywhere, even Thomas Jefferson thought they were inferior after he thought they should be free. I can't get over Jefferson though, he wasn't the man everyone makes him out to be, like Christopher Columbus. He was rich because he had so many slaves! I kinda saw the fall of white indentured slaves coming while i was reading and the rise of black slaves. It was interesting reading though about how quick the United States grew after they detached from England. Things were running smoothly but weren't running just right yet.