While many disregard this system as cruel and unfair, in reality it helped to shape America as it is today. Without the help of this system, economies would not be as developed as they are now. Unfree labor played a very important role in shaping the economy and society of colonial American through the use of indentured servants and slavery. The system of temporary servitude in the New World was established out of practices used in New England. In short, indentured servants were mainly poor British people without jobs.
His book, about the journey of a little white boy and a nigger, depicted the positive side of the slave but the negative of the white. Even though Jim did not want to “raise flowers with tears”, he obeyed the command; while Huckleberry did not listen to Miss Watson, who was trying to help him. Jim was not used to lies from the “king” or “duke” because he was honest, and Huckleberry always lied when he was asked for his identity and Jim’s. Jim was also willing to sacrifice for Huckleberry to save him because he though Huckleberry was “de bes’ fren’”, but Huckleberry was selfish and was not willing to help Jim at all when he himself was saved by the Grangerfords. Even though Jim and all other niggers of the period did not think of themselves as superior than their masters at all, Twain persuaded the readers to believe that these African slaves were all obedient, honest, and willing to sacrifice for the others – which was not found in the whites in the adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
It seems from a broader point of view that the North has gone through so much just for the Southern states of America to exist. It only makes sense that Northern leaders would feel angry and betrayed by hearing that those states that they have worked so hard to establish now want their own sense of independence. At the same time however, the South had more of a need for slaves than the north did. The agricultural part of the South employed slaves to tend the large plantations and perform other duties. Slavery was a natural part of the Southern economy even though very few of the population actually owned slaves.
He experienced the American slavery, escaped from it, and attached himself to the cause of freedom and the helping of his people to achieve freedom. Frederick Douglass was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave on a plantation in Tuckahoe, one of the worst sections of Talbot county on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He changed his name upon his escape from slavery to avoid being recognized as a fugitive slave. The land where he was raised was virtually worthless, decay and poverty were everywhere. The area was surrounded by a white population who was of the lowest class-economically, educationally as well as socially.
To see any negative view of the slave-trade, the reader must turn to the perspective of Oroonoko. Through him the reader sees how horrible the treatment of slaves is and how inhuman the slave-trade is. It might escape me, but I do not recall any moment in the story where the narrator takes its upon herself to discuss the slave trade. It seems that in that way that she is disconnecting herself from any responsibility. One could immediately say that this is because of her position at the time.
The economy governed the forced labor required in each region. The North, being a society with slaves, lacked the ability to maintain large-scale cash crops. While some masters used slaves on small and large farms, and some plantations, many northern slaves worked in variety of skilled jobs in addition to domestic, manual, and industrial work. There was division of labor as the women primarily did domestic work. Initially, slaves worked for a limited term, functioning as servants and apprentices that could be hired out.
They depended on slave labor for economic stability. Without the slaves many whites believed they were not able or should be doing the backbreaking labor. The plantation owners also needed the support of the slaves in all areas of their lives such as: cooks, housecleaners, nannies and chauffeurs. The possibility of life without the slaves was devastating. Slaves were the support system of their owners.
Sadly it is here where things went wrong, and the ugly side of human nature reared its face. The residents of the colonies came to the realization that these Africans were a “great” source of cheap labor, thus constituting the institution of slavery. With this by the end of the seventeenth century, the colonies began to establish laws that stated these people that were originally indentured servants were to be slaves for life as well as their children. And this is how slavery got its start in what was to become the “great” country, The United States of America. Not too
He valued freedom very much and made the point if there is no struggle than there is no progress. Douglass’s element of freedom was by educating the people in displaying the horrors of slavery and the harsh treatments. He made it his mission to exhibit how white slaveholders extend slavery by keeping their slaves oblivious. During the time when Douglass was writing, a lot of people really believed that slavery was something that was normal. They had the belief that blacks were integrally powerless of contributing in civil society and therefore would need to be kept as workers for whites.
They saw both slaves and indentured servants as property and could abuse that power as they saw fit. Many slaves and indentured servants simply did not live- the rate of death seems horrific by today’s standard of living in the United States. Both could earn their freedom, but each individual case was as different as the masters they