The institution of slavery within the United States(hereafter U.S.) began centuries before the country was formed, back to the discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer financed by the Spanish Monarchy, in 1492. It began with simple observations of one culture from another, then progressed into intense and purposeful exploitation of the cultures deemed ‘inferior’, such as the Native Americans and African Americans, by those deemed ‘superior’, such as the colonizing Europeans: Spanish, English, Portuguese, along with various others, for resources. Over time, as the U.S. grew in society and land area, the institution of slavery developed into a vehement topic of interest in the 1800s, causing conflicted arguments
