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Introduction to the Life of Anthony Johnson
Click here for more informationThis Timeline show the effects of diminishing progress in a man named Anthony Johnson's life. The main cause of dminishing progress in this timeline is the systematic passage of laws designed to oppress a group of people. The Englishmen would pass a law, wait for it to become the norm, then pass another law so that the people it effects dont realize it until its too late. In some of the laws, the Englishmen would not look at what would happen later, how it would effect them later. -
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The Lives Of Anthony Johnson And Family
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Anthony Johnson Marries And Has Kids
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Anthony Acquires Land
Click here for more infromation on Anthony JohnsonAnthony Johnson acquiring land shows progress because back then it was rare for an African to own land because only 20 out of 400 Africans were free and only 13 owned their homes. This is even more important for Anthony because he has 4 kids and a wife named Mary. This is important because this now lets Anthony have a little bit of social power. Even though it might not be enough, he still have enough to follow the social norms, like owning a slave.
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An Act Declaring That Baptism of Slaves Doesn't Exempt Them Form a Life of Servitude
Click Here For More Information On The Siete Partias LawsThis law represents diminshing progress because now the Englishmen are creating a cycle of perpitutity. They are giving them selves more control over what happens to their slaves. They made this law because it used to be that if you were Christian, you couldn't serve for life. According to the Siete Partias laws slavery was not a natural condition human life so they (the Englishmen) now stoped following the laws and started makeing thier own. -
Contuined Apprehension of Slaves
Also they shall get 250 pounds of tobacco from the public. The English are trying to make it so that the greed of the Indians pushes them (the Indians) to give up any slaves that come to them. This gives the Englishmen power over their slaves and they now might not care if they run away. -
The Apprehension And Suppersion of Runaway slaves
click here for more information on the apprehension of runaway slavesThis law goes aginst all that we beleive to be right. If a slave resists arrest, they can be shot and killed. The owner of the slave is then PAYED "a reasonable stisfaction for such damage they shall make appear in the county court". This law also says that the neighboring Indians have to help catch runaway slaves or could be severly punished. If the Indians do help, they get "20 armes lenght of Roanoake or the value thereof in goods as the Indians shall like of." -
PART 2 Punishment of slaves for the offense of hog stealing
Also, it only takes 40 well placed lashes to kill a man and a lot of the time the slaves didnt have clean areas to recover. So they would lie on their cot with the bugs and dirt getting into the open wounds and they would get infected and they would die from the infection. The English could now kill thier slaves, and becuase of an earlier law, they could not get punished for it. -
PART 1 The punishment of slaves for the first and second offense of hog stealing
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This law states that when slaves steal hog for the first time shall be punished by 39 lashes well laid on and for the second offense shall have ears nailed to the pillory (stockades) and after two hours have his ears cut off near the nail. This law shows diminshing progress because now, when ever a slave was hungry and stole a little bit of food, they were severly punished. -
An Act That States Who Can and Can't Hold Public Office
This law shows diminishing progress because the Englishmen are now making it so that the Africans can't change the laws and get a better life. The Englishmen are creating a dependency issue for the Africans, the Englishmen are making it so that the Africans want something changed, they will hear about it and decide if its going to happen. Its allowing more power to go from the Africans to the English. -
CONCLUSION
The life of Anthony Johnson was tough. The systimatic passage of laws to oppress a group of people affected him and his family. Though the laws were passed, he was one of the lucky few. He, unlike most others, owned land and a few slaves of his own. Even though he owned land, and when he died he gave it to his sons, the government took away the land and gave it to the English. Just because a lot of time has passed, dosen't mean these things dont happen nowadays. -
CONCLUSION
It just means that people like you need to watch out of the systimatic passage of laws in the future.
