Slavery in America1
The enslavement of the Black man was not the first time slavery existed in history. According to history, another group of people that were enslaved were the Israelites in Egypt. However, no slavery, even that of the Israelites, in history was worse than the slavery of the Black man. The slavery of the Black man in America was the cruelest ever known to man. Europeans transported slaves from Africa as early as 1505. Spaniards brought the slaves to the island of Hispaniola. Some historians say that there were probably Africans on Columbus ships when he first sailed the Atlantic Ocean. These Africans were stripped of their home, culture, and language. The Black man and women was treated as an animal. He was not considered part of the human family. Blacks were taught that their slavery is the way things were meant to be. The white man used religion and other institutions in order to justify slavery in the south. According to historian slavery existed in the deep south because of the economical situation. However, this does not explain why Africans were enslaved in America.The desperation for people to work the f
When I was young my father once told me, "If you hit a man once he might walk away, but if you keep hitting him after that he will eventually internalize all of that anger and return it ten fold back to you. He will eventually rebel against you!" The Africans had been stripped of all the had. So they were forced to either live as slaves or die fight of their freedom. Slave resisted slavery revolt the system. It was harder for slaves to revolt in America rather than in the Caribbean. At one time the population of slaves was four times larger than that of the slave masters. So it was easier to have a successful revolt in the Caribbean. In the United States their were to many whites. Slaves revolted by getting armed and then destroying plantations as they traveled from town to town. Another way slaves resisted was by running away mainly to the north. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery she made her way to freedom as a young women. She become the famous conductor of the Underground Railroad. Another form of resistance was not to work as hard. Sometimes slaves even burned the fields they had to work on. The slaves also resisted by forming secret societies, where they could practice their African religions and where they could organize other ways to resist their slave masters. An example of this was Santeria. Santeria was a form of resistance slaves practiced in the Caribbean using religion. The slaves were prohibited to practice their African beliefs. In Santeria the slaves would their beliefs with the use Catholic saints. ertile land of the south called for the need of slaves. In Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky the plantations grew tobacco. In South Carolina, rice was grown. Cotton plantation increased in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. These plantation need people to work them. These plantation could not hire indentured servants because it would be to expensive. Indians could not be enslaved because it was easier for them to r
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