How the Warring Parties Achieved peace (Justice) in the Colony of New Amsterdam
While considering white-on-black violence during the colonization period, many persons thought of masters and slaves, but this has recently been refined following the exponential growth of scholarship concerning the colonial bondmen. This has contributed to changes in but not limited to structures and sizes of a slave family, Caribbean connections and importation rates, and how slaves and masters related. And even during this period, peace and justice were maintained in one way or the other.
The payment policy is one of the factors which contributed to the creation of detailed records by patrols. Slave patrollers used the plan in the collection of their fees. In my opinion, this policy was critical in reducing the tension that would have existed because of misunderstanding during the selection of the funds. The patrol records also helped in building barriers to prevent illegal slave gatherings and also limited their movements. This method was used by Virginia communities and contributed to peace as slaves could not go against the rules that were already in place and could not also annoy the patrollers.
Hadden is insightful in its provision with facts on the historical developments and achievements of the Warring Parties to bring peace in the Colony of New Amsterdam. As such, it provides information concerning this by indicating that a patroller who excessively punished slaves would also be corrected by the slave owners who were against the vice. After that, the patroller could be denied loans, prevented from attending a party, or snubbed at church. The interdependence of Virginia communities ensured citizens; mainly whites had the chance to register the patroller they hated more as a result of beating the neighbor’s slave harshly. This served justice as no patroller attempted to beat the neighbor’s slave brutally.
South Carolina also had regulations that did not allow the beats of a patrol to be more than a few square miles. However, no such restriction limited the Virginia patrol or its militia. In the eastern portion of Southampton County, Bittle, Harris, Turner, and Kirby had responsibility for the area between the towns of Jerusalem and Franklin (Hadden, 2001).
In the journal colonial experience Hawke also states that the ministers were willing to save people, whether white or black, but were not able to protect the black slaves from their patrollers. According to this context, the ministers had the intention of ensuring that there was peace among the warring parties (Hawke, 1966). The whites, too, were not always safe as they were being prosecuted for leading the evening gatherings. Some whites were brave enough to scare away patrols with physical violence if they tampered with either the religious congregations or slaves. Though patrols claimed to work for the better of the community, not every white Virginian believed them because sometimes they attacked religious meetings.
In summary, payment policy used to create detailed records, patrollers’ punishment by irritated slave owners, and ministers’ intentions bring peace among the warring parties attributed greatly to justice and peace in the colonial period.