Dbq Slavery Research Paper

Slavery was introduced into the Americas when Africans were forcefully shipped over from Africa to Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 to help with the tobacco plantations. Within the next many years slavery was not a staple in the newfound society, but why? Especially in a time when not many industrial machines were produced to aid in human cultivation, you would expect the ruthless British would use slavery as a main source of free work within the colonies, but they didn’t. Within this essay I will explain how and why slavery appeared, why it became a widespread phenomenon and the years between them through the use of given documents, and my previous knowledge on the subject of slavery. In the early years of British colonization of the North American continent, a source of wealth and work must have been established, otherwise the land would have been considered virtually useless to …show more content…
But then, once the crops of Indigo, Rice and Cotton -(Document D) were also in play in the new fields of the colonies, slavery was drastically needed for the thousands of newcomer plantation owners that needed a cheap source of labor to make a substantial profit. The Slave Trade became a booming business across the Atlantic, and it became not only socially acceptable, but socially glorified to see the blacks as lesser and use them for work -(Document A). Laws were then put into place that once a “Negro” even stepped a foot into the North American continent, they were an object for sale, essentially “real estate” to the whites -(Document B). Christianity also became a socially accepted religion, and a further cause to enslave the Africans, saying it will save their souls, and that they needed to be converted as a way to make this way of life seem just -(Document