United States of America, which has been a nation of immigrants, freedom and opportunity from the earliest days, has grown to the most powerful country of all. The barren field where megafauna had lived changed to home for Native Americans from Asia, who were living in that great continent before Christopher Columbus discover it thousands of years ago. Then the massive amount of Europeans had come over with their dreams and hopes and started to form now this great country. However, the voyage to the New World wasn’t just easy for people in those day. Harsh sea storms, barren field and poor weather, unknown diseases, hunger and wild native americans had taken a big amount of people during the trip and settlement. Even though they knew these
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But there were many other people who were forced to cross the sea for others’ benefit, many of whom even died during the dangerous voyage they were forced to take. They were slaves from Africa sent to harvest tropical crops like cotton, sugarcane and coffee. The colonists had faced difficulty with lack of workers. To colonists who didn’t have good tools for rough land needed a lot of labor. This problem was very serious in Southern colonies, where the cigarette farming was mainly at. In the beginning, people were satisfied with white labors who didn’t have money for ship to us, offenders and debtor and people who got kidnapped in Europe. But this stopped around at 1680 and the slavery from Africa had begun actively. Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. In 1619, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, which provided basic idea of slavery system. And in the early 17th century, Europeans turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than other European workers. As the new land was big and the Atlantic Slave Trade went on vividly, many people bought African slaves. They worked in plantations with no payment and were working until their
But there were many other people who were forced to cross the sea for others’ benefit, many of whom even died during the dangerous voyage they were forced to take. They were slaves from Africa sent to harvest tropical crops like cotton, sugarcane and coffee. The colonists had faced difficulty with lack of workers. To colonists who didn’t have good tools for rough land needed a lot of labor. This problem was very serious in Southern colonies, where the cigarette farming was mainly at. In the beginning, people were satisfied with white labors who didn’t have money for ship to us, offenders and debtor and people who got kidnapped in Europe. But this stopped around at 1680 and the slavery from Africa had begun actively. Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. In 1619, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, which provided basic idea of slavery system. And in the early 17th century, Europeans turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than other European workers. As the new land was big and the Atlantic Slave Trade went on vividly, many people bought African slaves. They worked in plantations with no payment and were working until their