Renaissance (1300-1650), the Industrial Revolution (1700-1900), and World Wars I and II (1914-1945). slavery

Slavery has always been a part of human history. Therefore on cannot talk about when slavery began in North America. Soon after the American colonies were established in North America, slaves were brought in to meet the growing labor need on plantations. Although the importation of slaves continued to grow as new plantations were developed, it was the industrial revolution that would have the most profound impact on the slave industry. The purpose of this essay is to analyze the effect of slavery in the 13 colonies due to the industrial revolution.

From 1450 to 1750, slavery continued to be an important system of labor. The institution of slavery expanded dramatically across the Atlantic Ocean as enslaved Africans were brought over to the New World.Slavery existed in many parts of the world, such as Africa,the Middle East, and other areas of the world throughout this period. In many places of the world, people would trade enslaved people through out the world. Because Europeans were looking for a large labor supply,they started a transatlantic slave trade. The enslaved men and women grew sugarcane and cash crops on plantations.Because of slavery, after a while, slavery became "the norm". Ever since then, slavery had a whole new meaning to it. When the Spanish and the Portuguese came to

The first Africans to arrive in the colonies were not slaves instead they were considered servants just as other Europeans that worked under a contract that would allow them to be free after they have worked for several years. This contract would include land, their freedom, and clothes. Years after, the more Africans that arrived to the colonies the more the Europeans started to recognize slavery, put laws towards the slaves, and treat the Africans like they would treat the Indians like animals.

Slavery (the ownership of another human as one’s own property) is one of the oldest traditions in human history. History shows that ancient Rome and Greece valued their wealth upon the number of slaves an individual owned. Their service was to provide slave labor for their owners. As time progressed, slavery began to evolve into something much different– especially in the North American colonies. A new nation was emerging, fueled by a drive for expansion and a growing economy. The United States exploited African Americans through racial slavery to fill the labor shortage and created a system that stripped them of their basic rights, dignity, and created social barriers to ensure their subservience to Southern society.

Slavery became an established activity in America by 1600’s. The slaves were mostly to provide free and cheap labor. Apart from America, slavery was practiced in other parts of the world throughout history, and in fact it can be traced back to the time of the ancient civilization. With industrial revolution especially with the rise of sugar plantations, the slaves were used to grow sugar in the periods from 1100. This intensified between 1400 and 1500 when Portugal and Spain ventured into sugar growing in the eastern Atlantic regions. The growth of the plantations required labor, hence African slaves were bought from Africa, to provide labor.

Slavery has existed since the beginning of time. Slavery was a system put in place that allowed people to be treated property. In most cases, slaves could be bought and sold. People would acquire slaves through capture, purchase, or birth. All slaves were denied the right to leave, refuse work, or any type of payment for their labor. Slavery was a horrible institution, whose purpose was to serve as an economic system and display status throughout Western history.

Slavery lives on all era in world history till lately, but its life has not constantly had the similar economic trait. Two questions ought to be answered to properly examine any definite cause of slavery: (1) what further systems of labor live in the civilization also to slavery? And (2) what system of labor is leading? In this manner we can make a difference among ancient slavery (e.g., in Greece and Egypt where free farmers live together with slaves, but slavery was leading) and antebellum slavery in the United States (which live together with free farmers, but was conquered by the industrially-based capitalism of the urban North). The past dominance of capitalism in the United States made antebellum slavery the most uncivilized system of slave work. Not

The world wars had hit the Europeans so hard that they seriously and urgently needed a source of labor that would help in the rebuilding of their cities and mine their minerals such as coal, gold, and silver among others. They decide to turn to Africa for this labor and therefore, slave trade was born in the middle of the 15th century on the continent. The first batch of slaves was imported to Cuba.

We will start with how the Atlantic slave trade and labor had an impact in the beginning of the 18th century. One of the factors that funded the industrial revolution came out of the slave trade that was dominated by English traders at the peak of slave trade and the money that came out of producing tobacco and sugar in America by of course slave labor. “The profits from Atlantic slave trade, together with those from the sugar and tobacco produced in the Americas by slave labor, were invested in England and helped fund the Industrial Revolution during the eighteenth century” (Middle passage). We can conclude that slavery was the backbone of the economy, which helped in making the industrial revolution. By having huge amount of slaves work their butts off in plantations without paying them back made landowners make a lot of profit. “The aim was to carry as many Africans in healthy condition to the Americas as possible in order to make the large profits that justified such expenditures” (middle passage). That was the

In the early 17th century, the European pilgrims in North America recruited African slaves because they were more abundant and far cheaper than the indentured servants (typically poor Europeans). As such, slavery was first introduced to the United States when Africans were brought over to the colony in Jamestown, Virginia, in the early 1600’s. They were imported to help with the production of the lucrative tobacco crops. Slavery was commonly practiced throughout the colonies for much of the 17th and 18th centuries; slaves were instrumental in helping to build the economy of a new nation. When the growing of tobacco was almost exhausted, the invention of the cotton gin solidified the continued dependence of slavery. Following the American

The most famous example of this kind of slavery is found in America, during the 16th, 17th and 18th century. During this time, America's southern states were dominated by slavery, and the vast majority of plantations were essentially run by black slaves, imported from Africa. The slave trade was founded in 1444, by the Portuguese who, sensing the need for more slaves, ventured to use Africans. They realised that the

The term “Renaissance” is commonly believed as the rebirth of culture occurred in Italy during the period of 14th to 17th century. And it is also considered as a bridge connecting the medieval and the contemporary history. It is true to some extent, but not accurate. Renaissance is not only a revival of classical arts or the literature but also a significant change in the structure of the society and a reunion western world.

Large amount of land and labor were required in the Tobacco agriculture. At first, these workers were mainly come from England itself and the promise of land attracted many workers. Later, the industry of Tobacco spread from Caribbean to Virginia. As a reason, colonists spread from one colony to another. At that time, the Dutch slave traders enslaved Africans to fill the needs of labor. This model was followed by the English. Many Africans became slave involuntarily and the first African slaves arrived in mainland North America in late August of 1619 when a ship carrying slaves from Africa docked in Jamestown, Virginia. They were different from indentured workers by their endless term of service.

The Renaissance was a time period that began in the early 1300's and lasted into the 1600's. It was a time when the philosophies of the ancient Greek and Romans were rediscovered, which took place after the Middle Ages. Many of the philosophies of the Middle Ages were no longer accepted, and the Renaissance brought about a revamped

In the early 1500s Africans were not the only race of people being used as slaves. At first, the people of Europe used Native Americans, as well as some of their own willing people. The Natives were sufficient for a few years, but they were too versed in the land and their population quickly died off after being exposed to the diseases brought from Europe. Europeans even began using indentured slaves to do their bidding, but most people realized that they would die before they would become free. So, the last resource for Europeans was the Africans.