Slavery In The 17th And 18th Century

skilled workers controlled the less skilled worker. The strong and power powerful tribes abused and worked the weaker less powerful tribes. The Africans were responsible for selling Africans into slavery. Slavery began in stages as it began to grow ships full of Africans were sold in the Atlantic slave trade. Slavery was successful because it was a goldmine specifically for the south’s economy.

The Economics of Slavery In the 17th and 18th century, slavery was practiced across the English colonies. Slavery was based upon the concept of manifested destiny, enabling a culture and an unshakeable climate of commerce and American history filled with stories of greed and superiority and inferiority. African Americans were a large part of the economic …show more content…
In the later years in the south, one can see a close link between racism and slavery. However, slavery might have still happen with the Native Americans because slavery was profitable and in the earlier years, agriculture was where the money was. The tobacco plantations required mass production and at the time was the greatest form of income. The Europeans tried to use the Native Americans to harvest the tobacco however they weren’t very effective because most of them died from diseases or illnesses that were brought over to the new world by the Europeans. Additionally, the Indians would rather fight and die rather than become a slave to the Europeans. This is not to say that the Africans did not challenge slavery because they did however, they had to be smart about it because unlike the Native Americans the Africans were a long way from home. Thus, when the African came over they became a new resource for the Europeans. By the 1750’s the African population in the Virginia, British Colony had dramatically …show more content…
In other words, they did not want it to expand into their area with the westward expansions. By the 19th century American politics and culture was largely defined by slavery. After the Louisiana Purchase, the geographical factors that help to expand slavery would now help to end slavery. Both people from the north and the south ran to the new territories of the Louisiana Purchase however, there were now a conflict of interest as the new states were applying for statehood and they now had to consider whether they would be a slave state or a free state. Thus in any given state there were a mixture of people that were morally for or against slavery. For example, the state of Missouri during this period there were many debates over whether or not Missouri would become a free or slave state. It divided the state both politically and