Effects Of Slavery On Colonial America

Dating back to the 1450’s slave trade has been a pivotal part of the economic and social changes in America. Europeans “discovery” of North America destroyed Native American lands. Not only had they completely disregard the values and territory of the Native Americans, but they did the same to the people of Africa. The Africans were captured, mistreated, given unequal rights, and treated as if they were animals. The Europeans and Portuguese are to blame for inequality amongst the African people. Jamestown, Virginia was the first settlement that the Europeans established in America. Jamestown was the beginning of inequality and mistreatment amongst Native Americans and Africans. English settlers wanted to gain terrain in North America and by 1607 the Englishmen had built Jamestown, Virginia. Only 105 colonists had landed in Jamestown; after two years 500 more Europeans traveled across the Atlantic and settled in Jamestown. Before the Europeans started capturing Africans, they also created enemies with the Native Americans. The English used the Natives to tend to their …show more content…
The new world faced serious problems that they were not prepared for. The settlers had arrived in the middle of a drought and as the Winter approached, famine struck the colony. After the Europeans treated the indigenous people as savages and created enemies with them, the Europeans could not ask them for help. The Europeans had no one to help them cultivate the land. The settlers then turned to eating their livestock. First it was their hogs, poultry, and cattle, then they turned to their horses. There were also cases of cannibalism reported. Nevertheless, the Europeans survived the Winter and found a profitable product, tobacco. By 1617, the Europeans had poor Englishmen working as indentured servants in tobacco fields. They soon realized that they would need more workers, which unfortunately resulted in the capturing of