The Impacts of Slavery on African Americans

Slavery was a harsh system that consisted of forcing other human beings to work in harsh conditions; as well as restrict their freedom to the point where they had none. Slavery was first introduced into Colonial America in 1619, and lasted for 245 years. During those 245 years, slavery harshly affected those who were involved in its system. The institution of slavery has profoundly influenced and shaped multiple aspects of Colonial America and the United States. Slavery influenced the 13 Colonies and the U.S. by the growth in sales for Cotton, and farming. Slavery shaped Colonial America and the United States culturally, by proving to the slaves that white people were far more superior than African Americans, religion and Cult of Domesticity. Lastly slavery shaped Colonial America and the United States politically by causing rebellions, and abolitionism.

During the war, some slave owners ran businesses as well as owning plantations. In addition, African-Americans mostly worked in the fields plowing, weeding, planting, taking care of the tobacco, corn, cotton, sugar cane, tomatoes, and other vegetables. (Appendix 13). The slaves did the majority of work in the households they were assigned. When the slaves were assigned to a home that had less than five people, they were treated like family. When they were placed in a household with hundreds of slaves, they were treated more strictly with a great deal of discipline. 3 However, being an African-American during this time was rough. Slaves were not allowed to read and write as their white slave-owners thought they would pass messages along with slaves on other plantations and start a revolt.

The effects of slavery on the African American family were tremendous. From slave mother's and father's having their children taken away and sold, to brother's and sister's being split apart, to having the actual slave-owner being the one to father children with slaves, to even say that African American families even existed might sound ridiculous. But they did exist; it just depends on what you might define as a "family". Slavery did not weaken or dissolve the African American family. Instead, it brought all involved even closer together. I will discuss in this paper how for the author's of Incidents and Narrative, families were a driving force of their mission to free themselves. I will also discuss that for Douglass and Jacobs, no

Before I started to read this article, I thought of many ways and experiences of how slavery affected black families to still have an impact on us today. I feel that, slavery impacted black families strongly. Some ways slavery impacted black families is by, the way we cook and prepare food, while slaves we had to find ways to cook food for our family, some other ways slavery has impacted black families today is also by, bringing black families close together by, giving us the urge to want to know about our people and where we came from, slavery today has given us independence to work and get our own, also, one of the most important ways I feel slavery has impacted black families today is by, bringing us closer to God.

Hi James, indeed slavery devastated the African American population. The other day I spoke with a friend the other day, and interacted in a discussion regarding the slave trade in Europe. The friend I spoke with shared the slave trade wiped out the African American’s land. The African American population has never actually recovers from the slave trade experience. Perhaps this is the cause of poverty, disease, and no industrialization. Thus I have an African friend who shared with me that she speaks French. Do you believe African American speaks French as a result of the African slave trade? Do you believe that African countries will ever recover? Is there anything they can do to improve their land aftermath. Therefore, I know a few Africans

African American veneration of elders did not begin in the new world but was transported by slave ships from Africa during the Middle Passage. Despite the many Africans who chose to acclimate to slavery to survive in the new world, there were many who held tight to their beliefs and traditions including ancestor worship. The values that have been passed down from generation to generation have focused on family, along with the emphasis on both children and elders in the African American community (Billingsley, 1992). From the onset of slavery in the United States, informal caregiving included fictive kin and has played a crucial role in the African American community as a response to racism, according to Sudarkasa (1996). During slavery in the

Slavery was a sad event that African Americans had to go through in America starting in the sixteen hundredths. Slavery was bad because African Americans were kidnapped from Africa by Slave Traders and put on slave ships that enslaved African Americans. The Atlantic Slave Trade is the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people. Mainly from Africa to America and then, Africans were sold into slavery. Innocent African Americans were captured and beaten almost to death in captivity by the slave traders. Can you imagine the pain and horror African Americans went through while enslaving? Slavery is a negative event that should not be honored or relished! Innocent African Americans were taken away from their families. Can you

115 years ago, African Americans fought against the most oppressive and cruel system of chattel slavery. Their fight was executed by slaves and white abolitionists. As a result, 13th amendment abolished slavery in 1865, and the struggle succeeded. After the abolishment of slavery, life was a world filled with happiness and hope.The brutalities and indignities of slave life, the whippings and sexual assaults, the selling and forcible displacement of family members, the denial of education, wages, legal marriage, homeownership were gone. Free and enslaved African Americans, abolitionists, and everyone else who helped with this achievement celebrated their newfound freedom and win. However life in the years after slavery proved to be unbearable as well.

Imagine being forced to work for people who have bought you, and not being treated equally due to your race. Well this act occurred during the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth century. This was known as slavery. African Americans were sold to Caucasians, where their freedom would be taken away from them. It was a consistent struggle to fight through the discrimination, that was occurring. African Americans who were willing to risk their lives had the ability to have freedom. However, it was a long crucial journey for people on the underground railroad. Even so, freedom wasn’t always guaranteed. Caucasians did awful things to African Americans, which will never be forgotten. The Pledge of Allegiance says “ … one nation, indivisible…” however, at one point we were not a nation. We were divided. To this day and in one hundred years we will always have that division, based on the act of slavery.

America was founded on the idea that all men should have equal rights and freedom but even in Americas earliest years it was common throughout white wealthy Americans to own African slaves, for over 200 years. Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. After the French and Indian war Britain was to dominate the new world and offering free land to anyone who was able to travel to the new world and help colonize the land. The people that were willing to go and start new did not have the money to buy a trip to the Americas, and those who did have the money did not want to change as they were well of in Britain.as result

When I hear slave trade the first thing that comes to my mind is that the European came to Africa and kidnapped Africans and brought them to Europe and used them to do hard labor with no pay. Mistreat them and called them all sorts of names such as nigger,negro, black, which means satan, satanism, evil,which all these or opposite of white. Until i read the narrative of Olaudh I never knew that some Africans had slaves and mean slave trade was practice within African. The truth is that the way Africans treat their slaves is totally different from the way European people treat their slaves. According to Olaudah it said the people who bought him use to carry him very often when he was tired either on their shoulder or on their. One of the things

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobson both write their compelling stories on what life was like as slaves during 19th century America. Both narratives define the harsh life of slavery and the unforgiving effects that occurred during their time as slaves. In the same way, both stories reveal the theme of the evils of slavery but also given their different gender roles, their experiences are completely different from one another. While both Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobson’s Narratives undergo the corrupt power of slavery in 19th century America and were able to escape, the role of gender in

Around the altlntic world time in history, african slavery had become a problem for many years. Leading up to the african slavery there was many things that led to the effects of african slavery. There was a great impact on the world from using africans as slaves.

Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property. The people in the time of Renaissance enslaved people to use them as labourers and or do other types of labour. Should that be the reason of our change of knowledge towards slaves and how we perceive them. A slave is a human being or an “animal” (The Mission) classified as property and who is forced to work for nothing (The Abolition of Slavery Project, October 11, 2014). The word Slavery has a bitter taste flowing off the tongue. Immediate images of inhumane conditions appear that give an antipathy to saying the word. Slavery has been the result of war, wrecked families, and shattered the self-esteem of many people. Slavery is a condition in which individuals are owned by others, usually being people that owns farms or factories where it requires a lot of men to work in. The owners or master they called it, controls the slaves and at what time they sleep, when they eat, how long they work and so on. Slavery had previously existed throughout history, in many times and most places. The ancient Greeks, the Romans, Incas and Aztecs all had slaves. People in the 17th and 18th century have taken slaves from warfare and conquest, and forced them to do their day to day tasks. People see slavery as an easy way to make money without working otherwise doing anything that requires physical strength or movement. But ones view of slavery is often analyzed in this way, the others should not follow. Another reason why people

Slavery was known as having proprietorship and exploitation of one person by another. This has been given due consideration because slavery may be the oldest societal relationship in human history. Slavery in the South molded how the South would function for close to a century until the civil war. Slavery made the South function very efficiently and cheaper than the north. So the South found slavery as the best thing for them because of the low cost of labor and high profit they received from it. Even the people who didn’t own slaves, slavery still had an impact on them. Owning slaves put your social status above those who didn’t own any slaves. Slavery was considered one of the biggest impacts of the South.