Krystall Lorett
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Slavery in the United States of America was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, of Africans and African Americans. Slavery was practiced and legal in all thirteen colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In 1778, Black slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and representation in congress. Slavery in the United States began in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 when the first African American slaves were brought to North America. African American slaves worked in a plantation in the production of cotton, sugar, tobacco, and rice. Slavery was a big thing in the 17th and 18th century, and the African American slaves played a major, though unwilling and generally unrewarded role in laying the economic foundation here in the United States. …show more content…
Between 1774-1804, all the norther states abolished slavery, but not so much in the south. Though the United States Congress outlawed the African slave traded in 1808, the domestic trade flourished, and the slave population in the United States nearly tripled over the next 50 plus years. Most slaves lived on large farms or small plantations; many masters owned less than 50 slaves. Slaves were mistreated and not treated like a ‘human’ should be treated at all. Many slave owners made their slaves only dependent on them, they prohibited them from reading or writing, or learning day to day things that a normal ‘human’ should know, slave owners also took sexual liberties with the slave woman, and men and woman were brutally punished. One normal thing that the slaves could do was marry, but slave owners didn’t care if they split up the family by sale of one of the members of the
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Slavery in the United States of America was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, of Africans and African Americans. Slavery was practiced and legal in all thirteen colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. In 1778, Black slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and representation in congress. Slavery in the United States began in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 when the first African American slaves were brought to North America. African American slaves worked in a plantation in the production of cotton, sugar, tobacco, and rice. Slavery was a big thing in the 17th and 18th century, and the African American slaves played a major, though unwilling and generally unrewarded role in laying the economic foundation here in the United States. …show more content…
Between 1774-1804, all the norther states abolished slavery, but not so much in the south. Though the United States Congress outlawed the African slave traded in 1808, the domestic trade flourished, and the slave population in the United States nearly tripled over the next 50 plus years. Most slaves lived on large farms or small plantations; many masters owned less than 50 slaves. Slaves were mistreated and not treated like a ‘human’ should be treated at all. Many slave owners made their slaves only dependent on them, they prohibited them from reading or writing, or learning day to day things that a normal ‘human’ should know, slave owners also took sexual liberties with the slave woman, and men and woman were brutally punished. One normal thing that the slaves could do was marry, but slave owners didn’t care if they split up the family by sale of one of the members of the