Legalization Of Slavery

Slavery in the world is and will always be a very important issue that has an everlasting impact on the world. Slavery can be defined as working for someone against a person’s will. Although, the legalization of slavery is not to be found anywhere in the world, it is a very important thing to know about considering it helped shape this country and other countries as well. Now when people hear slavery, the first thing that comes to the mind is that it only slaves there were, were African American slaves. This fact is proven to be false because slavery also involved other races including Native Americans and also other Caucasians as well. With the help of the slave trade system, several colonies helped participate in and improve the development …show more content…
Some of the work varies depending on where they were transported to. A majority of the slaves were sold to the southern colonies where they were put to work on plantations to grow crops. The major crops that were grown on plantations were tobacco, rice and cotton because they were in high demand during this time. Also in the southern colonies, the contact between the whites and blacks was much more frequent than the Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts colonies . During this time, in Virginia there was much confusion on what the difference between a servant and a slave is. A servant is someone who on serves for a few years, according to the time of their Indenture or the Custom of the Country. Slaves are the Negroes and their Posterity and are called slaved because it is for life . There are also many differences in the type of work each gender and race did. For example, if a women is white, she is rarely put to work in the Ground if she is better for something else while it is very common for a black women to be put to work outdoors. When it comes to male servants and slaves, the work they did would be the same, the only thing different about their work is that their clothing would be …show more content…
By getting people from other countries involved, it increased the number of slaves in the colonies. To justify this kind of act, many white men said that if the black slaves converted to Christianity, they would benefit more from their loss of freedom. Africans were seen as savages, so white men seen capturing them as a good them for the Africans that way they could rid of their savage ways. Also, English masters justified the act of slavery because it was seen as planter profits . In theory, without other colonies participating in the slave trade, the slave system would not have evolved as much as it had in between the sixteen and nineteenth