Chapter #2-Blog #3: Describe the cultural and social changes that Indian communities underwent in response to English colonization.

The early southern colonies’ encounters with Indians and Africans (especially by way of the West Indies) established the patterns of race relations that would shape the North American experience in particular, warfare and reservations for the Indians, and lifelong slave codes for African-Americans. As the British were colonizing Virginia, they were also settling into the West Indies. By mid-1600's, England had secured several West Indies islands, including Jamaica. They grew lots of sugar on brutal plantations there, slaves were needed to operate the sugar plantations. Indians were being used but 90% of the died due to diseases. Due to the involvement of various cultures and races being involved in Virginia, the English Colonization was changed.