Slavery Vs Slavery

After the indentured servants had did their time depending how long their contract was, they were given money, land and often a sustainable job. Black slaves were permanently slaves and didn 't have as much hope as indentured servants because they had no family and they knew that they were stuck living their life the way it was forever. Also, indentured servants often had learned some economically valuable skills, so when their contract was up, they were more prepared for the outside world, while black slaves were not usually and were not let out. Indentured servants were slaves and dehumanized during their time of their contract, but often had a better life because of what they learned from being a servant and their reward.

In the 1800s slavery was a major issue in its time. Slavery is described as being held against someone's will;It is being imprisoned and not being able to escape a dark abyss. People that were enslaved were either born into slavery or vended off to plantations workers. There were 2 different labor systems that were the North and the South. The North and South labor system have similarities that they share as well as differences.

Today, slavery is not something you see in modern day society. For the most part, people are treated fairly while working, are given benefits such as holidays and the option to take a sick day when feeling ill, and are paid a good wage for their services as an employee. But unfortunately this was not the case back in the 1800s where slavery was popular among the southern parts of the United States.

In both cases, people were being exploited for their work. Whereas the factory worker received some wage, the slave received no wage at all. However, the wages being received in the early part of the industrial revolution, was barely enough to feed and support a family.

During the time prior to the twentieth century our world accepted slavery as a normal part of life. Aphra Behn and Phillis Wheatley, both female authors born about 100 years apart, had their own views of slavery and wrote poems and stories about the subject. These women were physically different, Aphra was a Caucasian, and Phillis was an African American, and their lives were rather different as well. Aphra was a spy and playwright, who lived the middle class life and Phillis, was a slave who was taken from her homeland, brought to America, sold into slavery, then later freed. I believe that both writers’ views were difficult to figure out, especially by just reading their works.

A shoemaker in Massachusetts once said, “We are worse treated than the slaves of the south”. The free-laborers were not forced to America in ships, stripped of their culture, their language, and their freedom. The free-laborers were not enslaved. I do not agree with the shoemaker’s statement, but rather believe the Southern slaves were treated worse than Northern laborers. It may have been true that laborers in the North had harsh working conditions, but they did however, have their freedom. The laborers were not treated as if they were property. Slaves were treated more as pets than people, often times abused and ordered to perform hard labor. The slaves had no form freedom whatsoever. Every aspect of their lives was controlled by their

Slavery was well established in fifteenth century Africa. The institution took two basic forms. The emerging Atlantic world linked not only peoples but also animals, plants, and germs from Europe, Africa, and the Americans in a Columbian exchange. The first Africans to be brought to North America in 1619. It is unclear whether the slaves came for unpaid labor or servant. Life as a slave meant endless work from sundown to sunrise. They were working six days a week and having food sometimes not suitable for an animal to eat. The slaves that work on the plantation lived in little shacks with dirt floor and little or no furniture. Slave that worked on large plantations had to worry about the cruel overseers. The overseer was to look out and make sure no slaves ran away and made sure that the slaves were working to their max. The overseers could be cruel at some times. The overseers would whip the slaves if they did something that the overseers didn’t like. The slaves that worked in the house were called domestic

Virgina has differences and similarities when it comes to slave narratives. To explain further, this is why the details and experiences that these ex-slaves gave in describing the institution of slavery and the practice of slavery are tremendously important because Virginia became a royal colony, the first in English history. However, the English kings were occupied with affairs at home, the Virginia house of burgesses was able to continue its functions and won formal recognition in the late 1630s. Thus, representative government under royal domain was assured. By 1641, when Sir William Berkeley became governor, the colony was well established and extended on both sides of the James up to its falls.

By 1860 Manifest Destiny divided America, making it hard for the Union to hold itself together. The spread of slavery broke bonds as more terrain was gained. Southern states and Northern states couldn’t reach common ground on slavery, causing more problems in the government. Slave labour was used for every state, and if slavery was to end many states could suffer financially. Slavery also had many members of the Union question if owning humans and treat them as property was just. Slavery threatened every state in the Union because it separated the country by political interests, economical requirements, and moral beliefs.

Enslaved people were treated extremely harshly by Southern slave owners. Slaves were instructed to do heavy labor, and if they did not worth to their maximum ability they were cruelly treated with whippings, beatings, and they were sometimes even maimed. Slaves barely had enough food, clothing, and shelter to get through

The biggest one is the fact that almost all the population on both were black with a few whites. They both had separate rooms for the whites and blacks which were smaller for blacks and larger for the whites. The biggest difference is the fact that both included very small living places for the male slaves which was better at the plantation, but was very difficult because they were never cleaned. They also had no hygiene because they were never given anything that really helps them with being good looking and not smell

In the 18th century, the Spanish considered bringing as many native people as possible to the virtues of Catholicism; therefore, in 1769, the first mission was founded at San Diego, and many followed toward the north to attempt to change all the aspects of the native people’s lives. To accomplish this, native people were taken away from their ‘undisciplined’ lives and concentrate at the missions, making it easier to control them for labor. Once baptized, the Indians moved to missions. Because baptism was voluntary and the labor demands were modest, this was considered free labor of Native Americans.

In many ways, the lives of the indentured servants in Virginia and those of the African slaves working in the West Indies were very similar; they both were working for a master and had to live through harsh conditions. However, minor differences in working and living conditions provided slightly different lives for the better or for the worst.

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

In order to talk about the abolition of slavery it is necessary to know the meaning of slavery and abolition. According to Dictionary.com the word “Slave means: a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person and abolition means: “the legal prohibition and ending of slavery, especially of slavery of blacks in the U.S.” Now that both words were defined we can begin. “It is said that the first African slaves were brought to the United States near the English Colony back in 1619 to Jamestown, Virginia by some Dutch traders. If we were to discuss the origins of slavery we would have to start not in the United States, but we would have to shift gears to Brazil were they were the biggest slaves traders of all times” according to History.net