Slavery is a part of American history that had a huge impact on racial and social class that founded America. African Americans were ripped from their homes and torn away from their families to become slaves in the New World. From approximately 1526 to 1867, “12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived in the Americas” (Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery). In the south, slaves would work on huge plantations farming and taking care of the land. In America, slaves were often beat and killed by their owners as punishment. In states such as Virginia, slave owners were allowed to beat and kill their slaves without getting in trouble. Slaves were not allowed to vote, own land, have representation in government,
