Hmm, seems like the French and English are beginning slowly in North America from the looks of the map.
Louisiana will likely be colonized around the same time but perhaps by even Spain. I haven't planned that far ahead yet.
Under the auspices of Spanish colony of Nueva Asturia? Rio Felipe? Or maybe absorbed into New Spain as Captaincy-General or a separate viceroyalty of Rio Felipe? New Castile? Santo Cristo? Rio Cruz? Atchafalia? Mesipi?
I actually was considering Spain because of West Florida essentially being right there, but the French did get there first so it will probably be the French. No guarantee though.
Oh I would think when Spain starts to decline that France/La Florida would just take west Florida.
Might this cause a lower class of German/Dutch farmers and higher French artisans/merchants? Isn't 10 percent a way too low number, in a time when 90 percent of population are farmers?
Not so sure about Canada. They were pretty royalist and conservative IOTL. They will probably feel threatned by British and Huguenots.
There are some French peasants there too which is why they only number 10 percent or so. And since the Huguenots were a mercantile bunch, mercantilism will take precedence over agriculture since for now they’re only growing what they need to survive. If necessary I will increase that number to 15-20% or so of the population.
It will depend on what happens to Canada if there is an analogue to the Seven Years War.
I said perhaps by Spain. France is more likely at this point.
If so, then maybe no black slaves in Florida? No plantations?
Unfortunately there will be slaves in La Floride. Plantation culture just hasn’t taken off yet (it will in the 1620s and 1630s when slaves first appeared in Virginia and the French Caribbean IOTL).
