Race-Based Slave Practices

Abrupt crashing from side to side, months of swaying with no sign of land in sight, traveling in the early 14 and 1500 's was a rough venture that few partook voluntarily. Throughout that time explorers of Spanish and Portuguese descent began scavenging the southern shores of America and the Caribbean 's in search of new riches. The first group of outsiders to meet the explorers, and merely get abolished by racism, were the “red skin” natives that inhabited the land prior. They wanted to stay in titled to their land once the explorers arrived; unfortunately for them that was not how affairs took place. After brash, violent encounters with natives, and the introduction of new diseases, taking advantage of the inhabitants distant immune …show more content…
Soon after colonization began, the cultivation and production of agricultural products such as tobacco and cotton took off at an exponential rate of success. However with an increased business cycle, the increase of the labor labor was bound to take place, leaving white property owners glimmering hands blister free, but dishing out large quantities of investments for shipments, upon shipments of black slaves. From 1619 to 1793 the foundation of blacks being enslaved laborers was a corporation in the making, particularly taking off in the year 1793 when the cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney, causing a launch in profitability, and an even stronger desire for black workers to harvest the crops. The aftermath of this invention resulted in laws being passed by the newly formed congress, further infringing upon the “freedoms” that they have already had taken away from them. For example the Fugitive Slave law was enacted, allowing slave owners of all around to cross state lines in search of slaves who have managed to escape the grips and gates of their