What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be "colonial".
The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society.
We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders.
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.
