... as those who had suffered less successful businesses or had worked in employment strove to be equally as self sufficient as their superiors but at their own hand. This was stimulated by the fear that being under command of an authority and totally dependant for salary, housing, clothing etc. you would be on no higher level than a slave. Franklin was a primary ... the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon."" He also recounted stories of less hardworking, more indulgent associates...

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... and enriched by ethnic pluralism. The first English colonists "homogeneous as they were "still had to learn to coexist with the Indians in the feral American wilderness. More than a century later, in 1680, the colonies would begin experiencing successive waves of immigrants from the countries of northwestern Europe and the arrival of African slaves, and the cultural and demographical ... among slave traders led to a decrease in slave prices), and a realization among the colonists that slaveholding was far more profitable than the employment of indentured servants. The years from 1700-17...

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