The Merchantile Ship

I remember the Merchantile Ship as my father told me. Well it was my grandfather that went on that ship in the 1600's. They promised that Blacks would be treated the same as Whites. Even though they divided them, they were equal. In the Americas, they would be all treated as indentured servants. It was where Blacks could live on new hopes and terms with White people. My father told me that at first only Whites could row the ship but there was many storms on the Atlantic Ocean. They were so terrible that they made everybody work together. That's when the bond was created that Blacks and Whites need each other and should stick together. And that there were death on the ships especially among Natives and poor. The Merchantile Ship was the chance for greatness. It was the chance to make the New World work for everybody. And everybody was needed in the Americas, they promised jobs when grandfather was in England. They promised land and they promised plenty of opportunity. The sail took six months and sixty days. And everybody was sick of the sea and so happy to reach shore. Everybody rush off the ship after spending most of their lives within the months on the ship. There grew friendships as well as adversity. Some people were plotting to take the best of the land. Some were making deals on what they would do with the land. And they hope the Natives that did not die from the overseas' travel would help them create new friendships with the Natives in the land hoping that they speak their language and understand their custom.

So these pilgrims decided to stick together and make a city that work or a town that would work. They prayed after getting off the ship and many were Christians. And they ate together and play together. They built their houses together in a matter of months. They set a rule of law like the Ten Commandments. They were common and decent people. Then they were attacked by the local Natives on many occasions. The Natives killed many settlers and then the winter brought diseases to the Natives. But they somehow survived even the Natives that were on board most of them lived from the attack. Also there were many children born to these pilgrims. The Governor wrote to the King of England to ask for more assistance and gave word of the goodness of the land and people. He did warned about the local Natives who were there before and did not like the disruption of their lands and ways. The Governor wrote a journal and sought it on the many voyages on the Merchantile Ship. The Mercantile Ship kept moving going back and forth from England to America then to America back to England. Only the rich could afford to cross the Atlantic Ocean over and over again. Not that grandfather was envious, he had nothing in England and he gain land and a wife and children with a job. Everything he needed was in America. As the society became more rich, some were plotting and others were building safer houses and fences. As the settlement grew and became bigger. The Governor received word from the King of England that Parliament would like to make them a territory. The Governor was worried and yet loyal to the Crown. He gathered the settlers together and told them that they would be fully protected and provided for by the King of England in exchange for their allegiance to England's Parliament. And the settlers were supportive but caution about taxes. When the Governor reported back to England, there was chosen a new King and a new Prime Minister. And the King with the Prime Minister made a declaration along with Parliament and Parliament approved that Blacks and Natives would be stripped of indentured servants and that it would be only Whites. Further Blacks and Natives would become slaves. While Whites would keep their jobs, be allowed to be indentured servants and pay whatever taxes that the Parliament sees fit. The end of a peaceful society. And the beginning of oppression in the New World. And that's how I am working as a slave and bound but I am not discouraged because I know that we will someday escaped or win over our freedoms once again even it means war. So help us God.