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Introduction of Diminishing Progress of Anthony Johnson
During the colonial times, it was busy in the colonies. People came from all around the world looking for adventure. Some people came as rich merchants and plantation owners but other people came as slaves. As the Englishmen gained power they started to make horrible and unfair laws for the Africans. First, the laws were made slow and nobody realized. As more and more laws were made, it was too late for slaves to stop the Englishmen because they had become too powerful. -
Introduction of the Diminishing Progress II
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
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Anthony Johnson Acquires Land II
In the beginning Africans had most of their rights but the Diminishing Progress brings those rights to none. -
Anthony Johnson Acquires Land
Click this link for more information about Anthony Johnson Acquiring LandAnthony Johnson acquired land in Northhampton County. It was not customary for an African to own acres of land. Anthony Johnson owned 250 acres total. He earned the land by dividing Captain Taylor's corn and his own corn. In his own words, he said, "Mr. Taylor and I have devided our corne And I am very glad of it now I owne ground and I will worke when I please and play when I please". -
Anthony Johnson wins a Court Case against a White Man
Click here for aggrandized information! On the 8th of March, 1654 Anthony Johnson went to court and won a court case over an Englishman. It was very diffucult for an African to win a court case over an Englishman because Africans had some of their rights but not all. But in the courts, the Africans and Englishmen still had fair rights, but the Africans' rights were slowly decreasing. -
Baptism of Slaves do not exempt them from Bondage
Click this link for extended information on this eventThis law explained that baptism of slaves did not exempt them from bondage. Before this law was passed Africans were able to be baptized and be free from bondage.Because Africans can not be freed by being baptized there will be less free Africans but more slaves held for bondage. The rights of the Africans were slowy descending. -
No Africans nor Indians allowed to buy a Christian Slave II
later there will be no slaves for the free Africans or Indians. This law slowly decreased the fair rights of Africans. But as the Africans' rights slowly decrease, the Englishmen's rights slowly increase.
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
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No Africans nor Indians are allowed to buy Chrsitian Slaves
In 1670, a law was passed, that said that no Africans or Indians were allowed to buy Christian servants. This law told that a free slave can not buy a Christian slave but can buy a slave of their own nation that is not a Christian. As a Christian slave held bondage by another free slave would be aggravating so the Christian slaves would be delighted with this law. But as a free African or an Indian, they would be infuriated by the law because the Englishmen would buy all the Christian slaves and -
Punishment of slaves for the first and second offence fo hog-stealing II
slaves diminished to the limit. "What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else." -Tom Clancy on Kudlow and Cramer 9/2/03 -
Punishment of slaves for the first and second offence of hog-stealing
Now slaves have been nearly claimed for bondage. As the Englishmen's power increased, the predicament of the rights of Africans are diminishing. As a plantation owner and a slave owner the Englishmen have made a law that said if a slave is convicted of hog-stealing, they would be tortured to death. As a slave the rights are going so down that they are being tortured to the point of death just because of stealing a hog.
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The End of the Diminishing Progress
"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free." --Pearl S. Buck -
The End of the Diminishing Progress
Without the Diminishing Progress occuring during this time, the future of our lives and the present times would be all different. As we live through our lives we learn more and more that slavery is torturing and terrifying and we are glad that we do not have to live through these times. The slaves during the 1600's lived their lives so gruesome, our lives have been changed. Who knows what could have happened if the Diminishing Progress never took place?
