The Origin Of Slavery In America

In America today, everyone you see have heard of the time that once was. A time where oppression was just another day for a group of people brought from their home they once knew, to a world no one wanted to face. How did the new lands become such a symbol for horrific acts on humans, without so much as a blink of an eye? The history of slavery is a part of nearly every country or province since the beginning of time. From Egyptian to Jews, slavery took shape as an unnatural form of labor.
The colonies in North America began with Jamestown, Virginia which brought upon a new route of the European slave trade. It is said that there were only four major reasons as to why people came to America; Religious Freedom, Avoiding Debtor’s Prison Economic Gain, and Enslavement. A historian named Peter Wood wrote, “For the English in the New World there are really three labor options. One is to transport people from England to the New World. Another is to employ or exploit the indigenous labor…And the third is to bring people from Africa”. Once …show more content…
“Progress has different meanings for different people. And for people of African descent, the cotton gin was not progress it was further entrenchment of enslavement. And for African Americans, the Industrial Revolution, those technological advances in the textile industry, did not mean progress. It meant slavery”. -Margaret Washington, historian. Rebellion quickly arose with the thought of generation after generation set in the stone of slavery. Expansion throughout America brought out the worst in a multitude of people. Furthermore, abolition was now in route for slaves and their immediate conditions. Freed Blacks such as Harriet Tubman and David Walker discretely yet efficiently paved the way for slaves to freedom. Without the underground railroad, countless slaves may have never seen the light at the end of the