The Advantage Of Labor In The New World

The slashing , Putting runaways to death, The burning screaming that could pierce through your soul and heart. This was how African americans were treated They were forced to work day in and day out until their limbs were falling apart and there was no will to live. Usually in mines, Farms or Homes because That was how they were to work. That's not all though if they did wrong ( knowing how to read or write) Or just because there master felt like it…. They would brutally assaulted them with the slashing of a whip Or put to death just for the heck of it. Or Because there owner thought they were doing wrong; So what was the cause and effects of this Unfair ruling of pain, Suffering and Terrible act of violence called slavery?

Slavery’s rise as the dominant force of labor in the Virginia colonies allowed for racism to spread and therefore justified the use of Africans for slave labor. Racism came as a direct result of slavery and allowed the divide between the Africans and Europeans to intensify. The profit that came from slavery encouraged many powerful landowners to switch to slavery, and eventually leave indentured servitude behind. In the colonies, slavery became vital to the new colonial society for economic reasons, and brought on a birth of racism that distinguished Africans and Europeans.

Winthrop D. Jordan author of White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812, expresses two main arguments in explaining why Slavery became an institution. He also focuses attention on the initial discovery of Africans by English. How theories on why Africans had darker complexions and on the peculiarly savage behavior they exhibited. Through out the first two chapters Jordan supports his opinions, with both facts and assumptions. Jordan goes to great length in explaining how the English and early colonialist over centuries stripped the humanity from a people in order to enslave them and justify their actions in doing so. His focus is

People used religion as a way to justify the act of slavery. They believed that God determined people’s places in life, so slavery was considered a “misfortune” controlled by God and not a social evil (Shi and Tindall, 91). Africans were also seen as “heathens” which lead people to believe that they had the right to enslave the Africans (Shi and Tindall, 92) The Africans brought the skills they had in Africa with them which made them very desirable in the American economy. Also, there was the creation of the slave code allowed slave owners more control over their slaves activates and movements (The Virginia Slaves

Slaves were an economic positive but a social negative in history. They helped the economics of the country thrive and grow, but it was also a insult of a race. Africans also had a history that they should have been proud to have. Instead, they were denied their heritage and were made to be ashamed of the people that they were. The development of slavery was the white slave owners ' way to maintain control of the growing population of Africans, socially and industrially. If the slaves were confined to the fields of the plantations for supervision, the whites would remain dominant race and maintain their theory of "white supremacy." It also freed the slave owners from the worries of labor

Slavery a practise that took absolute freedom away from African people for over 500 sometimes it is even referred to as the ‘African Holocaust’ because the estimated lives lost because of the slave trade is thought to be up to 100 million. And in 1691 this hideous practise was introduced to America and continued for another 250 years and it was only in the 18th century that America began to question the morality of slavery. This lead to a divide in the American people you were either pro or anti slavery. Due to geography Southern states benefited much more from slavery than Northern states did because they had the environment the could sustain plantations and their population was lower and less condensed. Northern states however due of the advent of industrialism did not need or benefit economically from slavery and because of higher importance placed on education and immigration there was a growing diversity of cultures and people so they were more aware of the moral issues involved with a practise like slavery. Another factor that contributed to the growing resentment of slavery in the North was a paradoxical one, because the South benefited so much economically for slavery where little to no labour skills were needed it began to affect the American economy as a whole as it limited the growth of the US economy. Work ethic was undermined and slavery itself only was only beneficial to the US in the short term and in hindsight it is easy to see that it actually stunted the US

During the nineteenth century in America the issue of slavery became a huge ordeal between many groups of people. In the South this issue was more prominent than in the North due to many factors, which included the economy, way of life, and beliefs of southern whites. The need for slaves increased after the invention of the cotton gin so slaves were high in demand for processing cotton. In the South, the economical system revolved around the use of slaves due to the strong agricultural economy that had been formed. Justifications such as the use of the Gospel, and examining how slavery helped to boost the economy gave the whites all the reason more to keep slavery around. Slavery was a way of life for many generations and it had no signs of changing no matter how bad the North pushed the issue that slavery was wrong.

Slavery developed in the Americas because of exploration and need or labor. Europeans captured Africans and transported them across the deadly Middle Passage, to the Americas, where they would be forced to poor under harsh conditions. Slavery had many lasting effects. Africa was depopulated, and Africans in America lost their cultures and identity while Europeans made money from the resources being exported in the Americas at the expense of Africans’ lives and culture.

Many historians have argued that the Atlantic slave trade was motivated either by race or economics. Personally, I find this to be true. With new European colonies being started around the world, there became a need for a labor force that could help economically and financially in the cheapest way possible. When the people figured out that they could go on voyages to Africa and come back with 200+ sets of hands for manual labor, they exploited this. Slaves would be bought and owned by citizens to help do everyday tasks and a tremendous amount of manual labor. However even though a great portion of slavery was for financial reasons, it soon became a thing due to racism as well. These Africans that were brought over were thought of as “not human” and used this as a reason to participate in the treacherous act that is slavery. Many elements that denominated from economics and racism were the causes for the Atlantic Slave trade.

The initial view of the white population that African Americans were inferior to them quickly led to slavery, but there was a definite second motivator. Slavery provided cheap labor to the white elite; this provided the means to improve their own socioeconomic standing while effectively eliminating any possible economic competition from blacks.

Africans were initially imported from Africa to work for cheap labor. Virginia, in the 1600's was overpopulated and so this was a way for citizens to grow profitable crops by using Africans as slaves to grow tobacco (Holt and Brown, 2000). Scholars baffle about whether racism caused slavery or did slavery cause racism? In my opinion, by the way Africans were treated on the voyage from the Caribbean; their treatment was a sign of prejudice from the very start. As Africans were settled in America and began to learn the language, Whites made Blacks to feel inferior.

While slavery was a horrific thing that led to the mistreatment of millions of black people, it had the power to last for centuries. When looking closely at historical accounts it becomes easier to see why this horrible practice was able to sustain for so long. One of the reasons was because the economy of Colonial America relied heavily on the labor of slaves. Farming, the slave trade itself, and the harsh treatment of slaves were all driven by the greed of slave owners. Another reason that slavery lasted so long was racism. During this time, the black population was considered inferior to the white population. This helped to promote the cruel behaviors that occurred in slavery. Lastly, many whites actually felt that the slaves were treated

In the mid 19th century the majority of american work was still done on the farm. By the turn of the 20th century however the United States economy revolved into the industrial state with mainly everything and every type of labor revolving around the the factory. Most Americans living in this time period did anything they could to make money for their family, caring little about work hour, safety, or wages. Most people worked 10 hour shifts six days a week for wages barely enough for their family to survive off of. Even children as young as eight years old would work full time hours that kept them from being able to go to school. Men and women in this time period would work until their bodies could no longer take anymore, only then to be released

Slavery has been an inevitable part of history. Slavery has been around since the Babylonian Empire . Slavery was even, present in Ancient Greece. The Byzantine-Ottoman wars and the Ottoman wars resulted in the enslavement of large numbers of Christians. However, it was during the Middle Ages and moving forward that slavery played a prominent role. Both the Dutch and the British played important roles in the Atlantic slave trade, especially after 1600. When, the New World was discovered, slavery was not based on race until much later.Slaves consisted of a few people brought from Africa and native peoples where the newly discovered land . However, slavery was still present . Slavery in the New World was in many ways inevitable because Europeans

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