The History of Slavery
“The toleration of slavery, is in effect, a toleration of inhumanity” the famous quote by Granville Sharp symbolizes to level of inhumanity at its lowest in regards to slavery as a whole. There are many famous stories and legends about characters who stood up against this barbaric thing called slavery. Many records of mass slave importation from Africa, slave trade,life and extreme miscare for those who sadly found themselves in such a position to be called slaves. The period in human history in which slavery was employed has many twists and turns, as well as many horrible effects on large populations of african and african-american people such as mass separation from families and homeland and mass mortality rates …show more content…
Taking place from the 15th through the 19th century, African slave trade was significant in transforming Africans from being a small percentage of the global population of slaves in the 1600’s into the overwhelming majority by the 1800’s. One place where slave trade and mass importation was a common activity was in the United States: as an example, in 1790, the population of slaves inhabiting the Unites States was just under 700,000 souls, by 1860, the number grew to over 4 million strong in the United States alone (lecture). Upon being separated from their homelands and on many occasions, their families, slaves transported to different places in the United States took up various domestic and outdoor tasks to further American Productivity, such as household maintenance, crop growing, or …show more content…
Among those rebellions, was Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in the state of Virginia in 1831. Nat Turner was an African-American slave who resided in Southampton County, Virginia, an area of more blacks than whites. Despite the fact of being a slave, Turner showed exceptional intelligence and accomplishments like learning to read and write at a young age. Despite these traits of a rational man, upon witnessing a solar eclipse on February 11, 1831, Turner was convinced that it was a divine signal to exact justice upon the white slave owners of the south. It was on August 21,1831, alongside the company of 70 fellow black slaves, that Turner incited a slave uprising that resulted in the death of anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States. The rebellion was quickly suppressed within a few days at Belmont Plantation on the morning of August 23, 1831, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards before being discovered by a white farmer named Benjamin Phipps, put on trial and finally hung and beheaded for his actions on November
“The toleration of slavery, is in effect, a toleration of inhumanity” the famous quote by Granville Sharp symbolizes to level of inhumanity at its lowest in regards to slavery as a whole. There are many famous stories and legends about characters who stood up against this barbaric thing called slavery. Many records of mass slave importation from Africa, slave trade,life and extreme miscare for those who sadly found themselves in such a position to be called slaves. The period in human history in which slavery was employed has many twists and turns, as well as many horrible effects on large populations of african and african-american people such as mass separation from families and homeland and mass mortality rates …show more content…
Taking place from the 15th through the 19th century, African slave trade was significant in transforming Africans from being a small percentage of the global population of slaves in the 1600’s into the overwhelming majority by the 1800’s. One place where slave trade and mass importation was a common activity was in the United States: as an example, in 1790, the population of slaves inhabiting the Unites States was just under 700,000 souls, by 1860, the number grew to over 4 million strong in the United States alone (lecture). Upon being separated from their homelands and on many occasions, their families, slaves transported to different places in the United States took up various domestic and outdoor tasks to further American Productivity, such as household maintenance, crop growing, or …show more content…
Among those rebellions, was Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in the state of Virginia in 1831. Nat Turner was an African-American slave who resided in Southampton County, Virginia, an area of more blacks than whites. Despite the fact of being a slave, Turner showed exceptional intelligence and accomplishments like learning to read and write at a young age. Despite these traits of a rational man, upon witnessing a solar eclipse on February 11, 1831, Turner was convinced that it was a divine signal to exact justice upon the white slave owners of the south. It was on August 21,1831, alongside the company of 70 fellow black slaves, that Turner incited a slave uprising that resulted in the death of anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States. The rebellion was quickly suppressed within a few days at Belmont Plantation on the morning of August 23, 1831, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards before being discovered by a white farmer named Benjamin Phipps, put on trial and finally hung and beheaded for his actions on November