|
|
North American colonies |
white |
black |
all colonies as % of British empire |
|
1700 |
265,000 |
234,000 |
31,000 |
7% |
|
1775 |
2,283,000 |
1,814,000 |
467,000 |
30% |
|
% increase |
762% |
675% |
1,407% |
|
social structure in England and the colonies, 1750:
England:
2% aristocracy (own 70% of land)
31% middle class (vote)
67% landless (no vote)
colonies:
75% property owners (vote)
social composition of the colonies, 1770:
90% rural
largest city:
Philadelphia 32,000
London 700,000
percentage of English exports sent to the colonies:
1700 5% to colonies
1760 40% to colonies
domestic architecture and urban planning:
William Byrd's Westover Plantation, Charles City County VA (near Richmond) (1730)
James Simon, The North Prospect of Montague House (London, 1714)
Thomas Holme, "A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia" (London, 1683)
Peter Gordon, "A View of Savannah" (London; 1734)
religion in the urban landscape:
Hugh Gaine, New York Almanac, 1771
Anglican church, Philadelphia PA (built 1744)
George Whitefield's 13 tours of the colonies, 1738-1770:
born 1714; Oxford 1736
from Georgia (1738) to Massachusetts (died 1770)
John Greenwood, mezzotint portrait of George Whitefield (1769)
George Whitefield, "A Sermon" (New York, 1739)
satire of George Whitefield (London, 1769)
First Great Awakening, 1730s-1760s:
Gilbert Tennent, "The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry" (Philadelphia, 1740)
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (Boston, 1741)
Baptist church, rural Virginia (built 1775)
Princeton college, fundraising pamphlet (Woodbridge, 1764)