Yesenia Y. Rios Reading Assignment Hist 1301 30 November 2011 The Slave Community Each author, John W. Blassingame, has a different point of view in which they want to catch your attention and change the meaning of what the book is really about. John W. Blassingame seems to be really interested and very descriptive over slavery life in the plantations. It takes a real person and a lot of courage to write and show the description of slavery. Not just anyone can give the same vivid description as he did, to explain how the environment and surroundings were. But what John W. Blassingame is really trying to do in this book is that slavery is so severe that it destroyed the ways the slaves lived and made them honor their masters.
Miriam Barakat Due: 11/20/07 History Essay Slaves in the American Revolution Discrimination against blacks was intense throughout the United States. Owners tormented many slaves’ lives, but many slaves made it through by believing in their religion and in each other. The tormenting began even before the slaves reached the mainland of America. So the history goes way back in times, Americans weren’t the first ones. But in America they did have slavery; they were targeted and hunted down in Africa, their homeland, by their own African people who would capture them and sell them to slave owners in America.
My first example on how deleting our humane feelings caused harm is Document 7 by James Ramsay called, “Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies”. The article speaks about the punishments done to slaves for misbehaving in their eyes and committing mistakes. The white men would beat them with sticks, breaking their bones, chain around their necks, etc. All this was done to cause fear within them. All these people thought since Africans are slaves, it’s okay to treat them as beasts.
Soon after, other groups of Europeans started coming to America and that created the other twelve colonies. These Europeans ran into some if the same problems as the Spaniards did. These problems lead them to the establishment of black slavery in the colonies. Three main reasons the Europeans resulted to slavery in the American colonies was, insufficient labor supply struggle with diseases, and indentured servants becoming too costly. Tobacco was the number one the cash crop of in Virginia.
* Oppression of Indentured servants * Navigation acts making tobacco prices to high, with no profit * Governor his friends land advances * Restrict the vote to only landowners * Consequences of Bacon’s Rebellion * Bacon was imprisoned * The whole town of Virginia was burnt down * Social Instability was complicated by a slow economy, due to navigation acts (High Tabaco cost) * Over production of tobacco and high taxes led to financial instability * What was the long term importance of the rebellion? * Prompted White landowners to get rid of indentured servants and replace with African slaves * The rebellion also decimated the remaining tribes in Virginia and forced many of the survivors to flee the colony. * How did influence the south? * By them replacing the servants with all african slaves, with the thought of them being property not a humans. It created a line of Racism.
American Slavery Many authors and historians have analyzed slavery from only a negative perspective, showing only the extreme cases of poor treatment. Due to the recent discovery of new primary sources about slavery, scholars have been able to reexamine the facts and provide a more accurate depiction of enslaved life. In Peter Kolchin’s book American Slavery, the author uses these new facts to portray slavery in a new light. The primary goal of this novel is to provide the facts about slavery. Other goals that the Kolchin hopes to achieve are the analyzing of the relationship between the slave masters and slaves and to show how slavery has adapted over time.
November 13, 2013 Before America was her own country, the white settlers owned slaves and when American became her own nation, her citizens still owned and kept slaves. America became divided on the issue of slavery between the North and the South. Slavery affected the United States politically, morally, and economically. Politically, America was affected by dividing the government and citizens. Morally, America was affected by the citizens’ personal feelings on slavery on slavery and how the citizens handled those emotions.
A Mercy Essay By: Zachary Di Fonzo African American Slavery is looked at one of the most darkest and crucial times in American History. In the 1600’s there were many servants that white Americans or “Europe’s” had working for them. This service became customary all over America and was instinctive towards all blacks. Many of these servants became referred to as Negro’s or slaves, which became customary to Africans in America. These Africans were subjected to strict and more atrocious control than any other laborers know to man.
Not until the development of the “plantation system” in the southern colonies in the later half of the seventeenth century, did the importation of African slaves greatly increase.With the success of tobacco planting, African Slavery was legalized in Virginia and Maryland, becoming the foundation of the Southern agrarian economy . By the time of the American Revolution, about 22 percent of the total population were African slaves, amounting to about 500,000 people. The transportation of slaves from Africa to America was known as the Middle Passage. because it was the second, or middle, leg in the triangular trading routes linking Europe, Africa,
from West and central Africa were sent to America for slaveries. They were taken away from their families depriving them from reading and writing and also they took away their right to worship. Africans had the way of worshiping God before they are brought to American as slaveries. When they arrived, they could not continue practicing their own religion and because of their masters, they had no freedom to do what they wanted to do. African American struggles during the time of slavery but yet they did not give up their hope.