The History Of Slavery In America

In today’s society when the topic of slavery arises, most people automatically think of America and Africa, completely leaving out Europe. Slavery was a time of deep despair for the Africans living during that period of time. The increasing struggle for power and wealth blinded everyone involved of the damage it did. Slavery was the cause of millions of deaths across the globe, dividing the world and ripping families apart one by one. The enslavement of Africans was made into a business, greatly impacted all the areas involved, threw innocent lives into a cycle of cruelty, and shaped the way black people are perceived throughout history. It was truly a dark period of time in the history of these three continents.
Pursuing this further, black slavery gradually became established in the British North American colonies …show more content…
Slave trade became popular among the colonies because Europeans felt as though Africans were uncivilized simply because of their race. This was extremely wrong of them because judging someone based off of their appearance is both ignorant. However, in their opinion it made the Africans inferior and was more than enough reason to use them as slaves. According to chapter four of Give Me Liberty! by Eric Foner, the transportation of these slaves to the New World was very common, being described as “a regularized business in which European merchants, African traders, and American planters engaged in complex bargaining over human lives, all with the expectation of securing a profit” (6). The Africans were essentially being traded so the Europeans could make money off of their free labor, they forced the slaves to produce crops that they would