How Slaves Built America In the 17th and 18th centuries, slavery was used by many different countries. However, the effects of slavery had a special meaning in the American Colonies. There are many reasons why slavery existed in Early America. For example, the American system for slavery was such that it completely stripped away any and all personal and financial growth for slaves. It also had an enormous impact on the growth of America itself.
The women folk who made up the colonial population, while they could not vote, preach, hold office, attend school, bring lawsuits, make contracts, or own property; these barriers did not prevent many from engaging in commerce, being in professions, and land owners. In the south, plantation economy flourished by providing agricultural products for England. Initially, indentured laborers then African slaves provided the labor necessary to run the large plantations. From the entire West Africa and from the East Africa originated Africans who became slaves, initially for sugar plantations of Brazil and the Caribbean, and then moved to the south of America in the 1600’s. In the 1700’s slaves were obtained directly from Africa.
Colonists put laws and rules into play to create the law and political system we have today. Slaves were brought to this country forcefully, but have had equally if not more of the same impacts as colonists have. Slaves economically molded this country. They did all of the work while their owners took the credit. Most states, especially southern states, have slave foundations, meaning slaves built that state.
First off the first slaves came from Africa in 1619 which was brought to Virginia. Slavery was system in America that made it legal for whites to buy and own blacks and use them for labor. Slavery was a state to state thing there were many slave owners and famous slave owners were the Framers also known as the founding fathers. Something interesting about the founding fathers were they were hypocrites because most of them were against slavery when they owned slaves, for example George Washington had many slaves but he was against slavery. Another thing to know is that that in the south slaves were considered as three fifths of a person.
Slavery in the spanish colonies first started when settlers enslaved natives using then to work on local labor. When the portuguese had an increase in the demand of agricultural products they needed workers but many lives were being talke from native slave, they were not working hard, and diseases from the new world were killing them. this was when they noticed that Aficans were immune to the conditions and diseases. Being a slave in Africa was good for some but ever since the Portuguese came in to the slave trade, life for a slave became harsh. The main reason why the portuguese enslaved aficans was so they can have men to work on plantations.
It is evident that the Black Americans have long been considered a large and significant ethnic minority of the United States population. The African-American ancestors were mostly brought to America to work as slaves to serve the White Americans who at that time were considered the superior race. These slaves were mainly shipped from West and Sub-saharan Africa bringing with them polyrhythmic songs from hundreds of African ethnic groups. That is when African music was introduced to Western music, creating at first a fusion from both worlds and evolving through the decades which developed into today's most popular music, listened and appreciated all around the globe. Our main goal and focus is to trace the development of Afro American musical styles and learn about their pioneers.
African groups of people were also split up into kingships and because so many of them were being imported to Europe they brought their type of community wight hem when they were traded, one can see that the slaves definitely form something similar to these types of groups when they were settled down. The Atlantic Slave trade also affected Africa socially through the demographic side of things. The slave trade created an offset in the sex ratio which caused decline in the population. It put Africa off-balanced and created man problems for them while the Europeans experience expansion of their class system and the further development of capitalism. Economically the Atlantic slave trade changed the way these countries work.
The south had an extremely large amount of slaves. Over time slavery flourished in the upper south and failed to do so in the north. But there were certain parts of the north that was very important to slavery. The northern states were seeking to buy a greater volume of raw materials but the european trading house basically controlled the market. The northern states were the trade competitors of europe.
It could be coincidental that all prospective slave traders flock towards Africa to fill their demand for laborers or that they believed they were superior enough to take those people and force them into a different life. This resulted in the unfortunate incident of many Africans becoming unwilling participants in the institution of slavery. One of the largest practices of slavery was that of Muslim societies in the Arab slave trade. More than 10 million Africans were taken and traded as a part of the Arab slave trade. This helps to assume that the target of enslaving people fell heavily in the people of the African race.
The Impact of African Americans on U.S. Culture For hundreds of years Africans were sold into slavery and shipped to the Americas against their will. Hundreds of thousands made this journey to the United States and together with the enslaved Africans came their African culture. Even though they were repressed by their white “masters” their African culture did not completely die away and instead fused with European culture over time to create a uniquely African American culture. African Americans have contributed to the richness of American culture from its beginnings. Their influence on U.S. culture runs deep even though the African American community represents a relatively small percentage of the U.S. population, accounting for about 13% (United States Census Bureau).