What Is The Role Of Slavery In African American Society

The early 1600 and 1700’s marked the beginning of slavery for America. New and advanced agricultural techniques were established that required a vast labor force to keep the economy afloat. This in turn led the labor hungry European colonies to enslave millions of innocent African Americans. Slavery was Slavery in America began when the first African Americans slaves were brought in due to Portugal’s decision to cooperate with interested African kingdoms to establish slave trade, also referred to today as the Atlantic Slave Trade. Slaves were first settled in James town, Virginia in 1619 to aid the Europeans in the production of a major profit, tobacco. Farmers soon realized that African Americans were the most reasonable source of labor because they were hard working, cheap, and far more skilled than indentured servants. The difference in the amount of effort put in by both the slaves and indentured servants allowed famers to distinguish which group was more valuable. Slaves eventually replaced indentured servants, becoming the prominent work force of America. …show more content…
Where slaves made up over half of the overall population. Here is where slaves established family relationship, work ethics, new techniques, and various forms of resistance to their work environment. The main task at this time was managing tobacco plantations. Slaves were sent into the fields from sunrise to sunset harboring tobacco, and performing all the necessary steps in order to export the plant. Tobacco cultivation was extremely labor intensive, which prompted the idea of using African Americans as slaves. As tobacco trade spread and the profit increased, other resources such as sugar cane and rice became prevalent in the