Chapter 4

Chapter 4 starts off talking about England's attempt to expand overseas trade.  Britain attempted to tighten the control over the colonies, also known as the Dominion of New England.  Slavery became more important economically and socially.  The middle passage brought most Africans from the west coast.  They had to endure filth and brutality, some died of disease. Slaves usually worked for a longer portion of their lives than the whites. Slave children would start working part time from the age of  7 and they would start working full time and early as the age of 11. Slavery became to be a common thing in the New Colonies.