Slavery was introduced to the Americans around the sixteenth century. With slavery comes laws to regulate what happen inside the country. This happens with anything that is introduced new, laws are created to keep a balance. Most of the slave laws benefited the owners. Few laws helped the men, women, and children that were forced under slavery. This continued until the abolishment of slavery in eight sixty five. Laws were merely quick solution that fix one problem but it did not completely fix the multiple problems.
Many of the slave laws were negative towards the people under slavement. One of the first recorded use of slavery in the United States was Jamestown, Virginia in sixteenth nineteen(Slavery (1787 - 1863): Selected Laws and Policies …show more content…
When the European settled North and South America, they chose to buy Africans because of their size, cheaper than other races, and population of people in Africa was high(Slavery (1787 - 1863): Selected Laws and Policies affecting African Americans). “Though it is impossible to give accurate figures, some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million slaves were imported to the New World during the 18th century alone, depriving the African continent of some of its healthiest and ablest men and women.”(Slavery (1787 - 1863): Selected Laws and Policies affecting African Americans). As more slaves came into the United States of America, Congress passed one of the first laws about slavery, which claim that slaves were three fourth of a human(Slavery (1787 - 1863): Selected Laws and Policies affecting African Americans). This prevented slaves to have constitutional rights such as freedom of speech, right of religions and freedom to make their own decisions. The government made it hard to make any progress with getting …show more content…
The laws of slavery did not benefit the people being enslaved. Laws only met the needs of the plantation owners. Only a few laws tried to help life of slaves such as banning the transport of people over the ship and auction of people. What it did not help with was the treatment of the people. They still got whipped and sexaully assaulted by the owners. The government has only encouraged this behavior to carry on. Providing more benefits for plantation owner, but not even attempting to toss a bone to people down below. Indeed some laws were good hearted acts, but the laws were unfit how a person should be treated. Our country yells that United States is the land of the free, but it should be felt by everyone. The people who yells freedom are usually the ones that do not experience that hardship of being controlled by someone else. This country freedom should be throughout the country as a
Many of the slave laws were negative towards the people under slavement. One of the first recorded use of slavery in the United States was Jamestown, Virginia in sixteenth nineteen(Slavery (1787 - 1863): Selected Laws and Policies …show more content…
When the European settled North and South America, they chose to buy Africans because of their size, cheaper than other races, and population of people in Africa was high(Slavery (1787 - 1863): Selected Laws and Policies affecting African Americans). “Though it is impossible to give accurate figures, some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million slaves were imported to the New World during the 18th century alone, depriving the African continent of some of its healthiest and ablest men and women.”(Slavery (1787 - 1863): Selected Laws and Policies affecting African Americans). As more slaves came into the United States of America, Congress passed one of the first laws about slavery, which claim that slaves were three fourth of a human(Slavery (1787 - 1863): Selected Laws and Policies affecting African Americans). This prevented slaves to have constitutional rights such as freedom of speech, right of religions and freedom to make their own decisions. The government made it hard to make any progress with getting …show more content…
The laws of slavery did not benefit the people being enslaved. Laws only met the needs of the plantation owners. Only a few laws tried to help life of slaves such as banning the transport of people over the ship and auction of people. What it did not help with was the treatment of the people. They still got whipped and sexaully assaulted by the owners. The government has only encouraged this behavior to carry on. Providing more benefits for plantation owner, but not even attempting to toss a bone to people down below. Indeed some laws were good hearted acts, but the laws were unfit how a person should be treated. Our country yells that United States is the land of the free, but it should be felt by everyone. The people who yells freedom are usually the ones that do not experience that hardship of being controlled by someone else. This country freedom should be throughout the country as a