American slavery, Kolchin explains evolved as a trend toward forced labor in the New world colonies. Around the 1700’s slavery concentrated mostly in the south , though it exists in all American colonies. Relationships between masters and slaves changed as slaves lost their African culture. The revolutionary era saw slavery intimidated by enlightenment but the it survived more strongly in the south, and during the 19th century it became crucial to the southern economy. Kolchin also writes about the slave life during the civil war seeing that slavery leaves a legacy in our century. He probes into the lives of those imprisoned by the “peculiar institution”. In the 1600’s begins with the slavery’ origin in America with the imports from Africa.
