In the fourth “chapter” of Assistant Professor of History Dan Allosso‘s US History course in the Spring 2025 semester at Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, he focuses on some of the stresses that resulted in the consolidation of English colonial power at the end of the 17th century. Click here for the 31-minute video posted on February 6, 2025.

Allosso begins by describing the French explorations of Champlain, Marquette and LaSalle. He then describes King Philip’s War (1675-1676) and its impact on English colonization. Later, he covers how Barbados became the focus of both indentures and, eventually, chattel slavery.

He describes how enslavement then evolved over the 17th century, the enhancing production of tobacco in Virginia and Maryland, and the production of sugar in the Caribbean.

Allosso concludes his “chapter” by describing how Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia in 1675 served to racialize enslavement in America, how power in colonial New England was consolidaed under Edmund Andros, and how land was granted to Quaker William Penn in 1681 to create Pennsylvania.