and had no human rights. They were the property of their masters, an object that could be bought, sold, given or mortgaged according to their masters will (Maameri 125).Colonial America depended on agriculture and the near- decimation of the native Indians by warfare and diseases created a labor shortage. In the English colonies, labor was initially provided by indentured servants ,poor whites or convicts. Enslavement of blacks started on a small scale in 1619 the year in which a shipment of…