How Did Slavery Affect African American Society

The world of the Americans was at an all time high between 1785 through 1817. People had racial problem between the Native Americans, African Americans, and foreigners coming from Germany and Ireland posed a threat to white Americans and their government they created. The African American race was at bottom of the social value in America society and they face a lot of challenges due this period of slavery expansion. Through the time period of 1785 through 1817 slavery expanded frequently through the south causing many negative racial issues between the whites and blacks. The African Americans being slaves had much influence on the American society, that the eight of the first ten presidents were slaveholders. Slaves were in such of a demand that President Andrew Jackson went from having 9 to a more than 160 slave’s right before his death. The cotton gin in 1793 made whites want more slaves than ever. The slave population grew, causing more problem …show more content…
The Americans did not change much due to colonization but stirred up more people who wanted slaver to be abolished. African Americans artists and authors were less common, Jennings’s Liberty was one of the few who opposed slavery. Most of the images were humiliating toward blacks oppressing them to become nothing better than cattle, perceiving them physically and intellectual differently from whites. The images of blacks to the public were always presented to the world from the eyes of white Americans, which is one sided. American only seen demoralize of blacks never seeing what good the blacks done to American society. Blacks had to earn their respect in all areas of American society by blacks working on the development of Washington DC help gain some of this. Benjamin Banneker a self-taught clock maker, astronomer, and surveyor, help plot the 100 square mile area of the capital. Step like this help whites realize that blacks could be