The history of the United States is built upon a foundation that was sculpted by slavery. In 1619, the first African slaves arrived in Virginia. From this moment in time, the prevalence of slavery grew further until it became an integral aspect of White American society. The Transatlantic Slave Trade was a popular mode of accumulating wealth in the early Seventeenth Century. Victims of this economically-bound kidnapping endured harsh conditions, with the unlikely prospect of emancipation in the back of their minds. Slavery was a lifelong, transferrable condition in which children of slaves became slaves themselves. Of these children that were infected by slavery at birth, was Frederick Douglass. Douglass emphasized that violence, and revolution
