2. Were you surprised that Wightman's classmates turned out as they did? Why or
why not?
Building a commercial enterprise out of the wilderness required labor and lots of it. For much of the 1600s, the American colonies operated as agricultural economies, driven largely by indentured servitude. Most workers were poor, unemployed laborers from Europe who, like others, had traveled to North America for a new life. In exchange for their work, they received food and shelter, a rudimentary education and sometimes a trade.
By 1680, the British economy improved and more jobs became available in Britain. During this time, slavery had become a morally, legally and socially acceptable institution in the colonies. As the number of European laborers coming to the colonies dwindled, enslaving Africans became a commercial necessity and more widely acceptable.
I believe the answer is B. I hope this helps! have a great weekend and God bless!!!
The details from this excerpt support the idea that Elizabethans’ attitude toward eating meat was becoming more relaxed given the fact that wealthy people increased the comsuption of meat in their diets, including during Lent, which is a period of time when people fast as a matter of religious belief; and also since the law that forbade meat intake was repealed, many of the households introduced meat diets to suit the demands.
