Money vs Morality
In a time when white males believed in superiority over everything around them, Africans, not even considered people, were kidnapped and sold as slaves. How could this ever happen? Why would Africans ever stand for such a horrific thing? These are all questions asked by many people today when looking back at history. In 1692 Columbus sailed the ocean blue in search of a quicker trade route to Asia. He ended up stumbling upon a new land, America. Slowly people migrated to the new land in search of prosperity. Uneducated people from England were taking contracts from the King of England to become indentured servants and work for five or so years and gaining land because of it. Soon the English realized they could get slaves from Africa, and they would no longer need to pay for the indentured servants. They could just have relatively free slaves. One way of obtaining slaves was slave traders would sneak into the homes of Africans, and kidnap children
Elizabeth Donnan, Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America, Vol. I, pp. 194-196. Slave trading was simply an economical advantage by the English. Other countries in Europe had used slaves before. The English had waited to use slaves until the indentured servants had dried up. Once that happened, the English were importing slaves by the hundreds from Africa. One New Englander said that they could equal the cost of twenty slaves to one indentured servant. It took until the late 1700's to begin the abolishment of slavery. This all started with "An act for the gradual abolition of slavery" in 1780, which stated a need for these Negro's brought from Africa in the early 1700's to become free. But this was only followed in a few northern states. The southern states have been dealing with this subject and are still today. and adults. It did not matter if they were women, men, or children. They were simply just dirty slaves to the English. An
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