Child Slavery Research Paper

Topic: How did the institution of chattel slavery shape the development of the American Republic from 1783 to 1860?

“ Worldwide, there are an estimated 246 million children engaged in child labour. Some 180 million children aged 5–17 (or 73 percent of all child labourers) are believed to be engaged in the worst forms of child labour, including working in hazardous conditions such as in mines and with dangerous machinery. Of these children, 5.7 million are forced into debt bondage or other forms of slavery, 1.8 million are forced into prostitution or pornography and 600,000 are engaged in other illicit activities.”

White historians in the past described the relationship between slavery in the American South and the rising political power and economic growth of the United States as i.e. timely unrelated. Furthermore, white historians believed that slavery had no impact on America’s modern economy or industrialization. Perhaps slavery wasn't considered a “modern” institution because to acknowledge it as a modern act in society would be to recognize it as something commonplace in that specific day and age.

The working and living conditions of the enslaved Africans in the New World were inhumane. It was brutal, degrading, and stripped the slaves of their humanities. They were met with harsh physical abuse such as whipping, beating, shackling, mutilation, branding, imprisonment, and even sexual abuse. Slaves were usually beat if they were disobedient, but some were beat by their owners to solely assert dominance. The barracks that the slaves were kept in were tightly packed and securely locked down to prevent anyone from escaping, usually with barbed wire at the top. Slaves received hardly any food and water and were malnourished, some even dying from this.

Slavery is fundamental to the economy. It can be said that slavery is as old as civilization. It started in the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 solidified the central importance of slavery to the South’s economy. African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. White slave owners did not understand or allow the practice of African traditions and customs. Slaves were forced to find new forms of expression.

The bright orange sun was scorching, and the slaves were worn out. They were excited for the sun to go down, so they could take the night to cool down. The day seemed to never end, with an owner whipping and yelling at them to stay on their feet at all times. The cotton fields were slimming, but they knew the work wasn't over until they could escape from this place. They had hope for the day they’d been planning for months. It was Jonathan, the slave owner's eldest son, who was secretly the slaves best friends. The day the six slaves arrived on the farm, Jonathan was in charge. He watched them for several weeks, until his father could trust them to stay.

“ Over a period of the Atlantic slave trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived n the Americas” (1). Now fast forward to before the time of the Civil War and think of how many more African Americans that have gotten kidnapped and brought to the Americas. That is a lot of African American people that were turned into abused slaves that had to work day and night for whites.

From 1775-1830, America saw its slavery institution expand. One major factor that contributed to the growth of enslaved African Americans was the increase in agriculture in the South. Cotton, a long standing staple crop of the southern states, was a very labor intensive crop to harvest. Because of this need for labor, many plantation owners and farmers continued to purchase slaves. In addition to the fact that cotton was very laborious to pick, plantation owners wanted more and more land to plant the crop on because it was such a success. As more land was obtained, more slaves were needed to work the land. In 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. This invention sparked an increase in the number of enslaved African Americans in the South

Based on what I read, Douglass really emphasizes how the lives of slave kids and white kids differentiate. He argues on how slave kids are not allowed the privilege to know their real age, while the white kids have that privilege, and they know exactly how old they are and the exact date of when they were born! Pursuing this further, he also argues the fact that the white kids are allowed to live with their families, and know who their parents are. Douglass and almost all slave kids don't have that privilege. He doesn't know who his father is, and has so little data on who his mother really is. The day his mother passed Douglass was not allowed to attended her memorial ceremony and, felt like it was the death of a complete stranger! Furthermore,

Douglas's childhood life showed us his impression of the 19th century America, thanks to invention of cotton gin, plantations in the South revived and large numbers of blacks were sold from Africa to plantations in the United States, these slaves brought significant benefits to the plantation owners, but no one can think of the subsequent historical impact.

What would you do if you thought your daughter was going off to work as a maid but gets stuck in a brothel making very low money and selling her body to men? This happens all around the world and people don’t even relies how bad it effects women or children.

The incidents and effect of slavery in the lifes of the American’s causes a traumatized experience in the lifes of the salves. Where by slavery was used as a source of lively hood . in those days, slavery was used as business among the white people to distort the blacks, and the white Indian. Slavery was a political government practiced in the Unites States. Where black people are forcibly sold to their master to make money, and let them work hard on their plantation. During the time of slavery family were throne apart. Just like the way William and Benjamin were sold to different slaveholders. Family and Education are among the key factor that the slaveholders use to lead the black Americans during the era of slavery.

More seasoned slave young men, and less as often as possible the young ladies, enthusiastically added to them welfare of their family by chasing and angling with their fathers amid the night hours. Exception from field work around evening time gave fathers and their youngsters a chance to expand their eating routine by catching little diversion and getting fish in adjacent streams. They understood a genuinely necessary sentiment self-esteem by adding delights to the family table. Frequently blocked by their lords from adding to their families material welfare, slaves savored the opportunity to chase and plot for sustenance. Possibly above all, slave men found these two exercises especially fulfilling on the grounds that it permitted them the

Additionally any children that may have been born to a female slave became the property of the slave owner. This created an economic windfall for the slave owner. Due to the complete control, punishments and lack of legal recourse available to them slaves tended to work harder and longer than those that had been indentured. If they could afford the purchase price servants were also allowed to purchase and own property while the slaves were denied this privilege. Slave owners also had the authority to buy and sell their slaves as they saw fit and to permit or deny the marriage of any of their slaves.

The dangers of being enslaved are high. They capture anybody and sell the enslaved for money or force them to work against their will. Performing these acts used to be legal back then [1700-1800], but nowadays these acts are referred to as slave trafficking. This petition would declare congress to start focusing on slavery prevention. This problem was dealt with before, and it has to be dealt with again. This could be one of the first human rights that will be enforced and could possibly inspire other to write petitions based on the human rights.