American Slavery
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American Slavery
Slavery is the condition in which one person owns another, and the slave is deprived of the rights that are ordinarily held by free people (Slavery, 2009, para.1). Slavery has existed in many countries around the world for many years. There is not a specific time that slavery began because it has basically always been present in some form and in many parts of the world. Some people in this world believe that slavery was right and necessary, while others believe it was wrong and horrific. Slavery began in America in the early 1600’s and lasted until the middle 1800’s. American slavery consisted of : Africans being captured, brought to America, sold like property, stripped of all their rights, forced to live in terrible conditions, and abused all so that they could be used for free labor to benefit the American slave owners. Would America be what it is today if slavery had never existed?
In the early 1600’s, Americans began to travel to Africa by ship to capture Africans to be used as slave labor in America. The Americans would try to pick the Africans that were the strongest and the healthiest to bring back to America. By picking the healthiest people, the slaves would be more likely to survive the voyage back to America. They chose the strongest Africans, so that they would be good candidates for labor and hard work once they were back in America. The Americans did not want to bring weak and ill Africans back to America if they could find better ones because they wanted to be able to get top dollar for the slaves when they sold them.
After being captured, the slaves were then tightly packed onto the ships and sailed back to America. The voyage that the slaves and slave capturers made back to America was called the Trans Atlantic voyage. The voyage to bring the Africans back to America normally lasted between eight and 10 weeks unless there were bad weather conditions that slowed them down. Lodge said it was not uncommon for...
Slavery is the condition in which one person owns another, and the slave is deprived of the rights that are ordinarily held by free people (Slavery, 2009, para.1). Slavery has existed in many countries around the world for many years. There is not a specific time that slavery began because it has basically always been present in some form and in many parts of the world. Some people in this world believe that slavery was right and necessary, while others believe it was wrong and horrific. Slavery began in America in the early 1600’s and lasted until the middle 1800’s. American slavery consisted of : Africans being captured, brought to America, sold like property, stripped of all their rights, forced to live in terrible conditions, and abused all so that they could be used for free labor to benefit the American slave owners. Would America be what it is today if slavery had never existed?
In the early 1600’s, Americans began to travel to Africa by ship to capture Africans to be used as slave labor in America. The Americans would try to pick the Africans that were the strongest and the healthiest to bring back to America. By picking the healthiest people, the slaves would be more likely to survive the voyage back to America. They chose the strongest Africans, so that they would be good candidates for labor and hard work once they were back in America. The Americans did not want to bring weak and ill Africans back to America if they could find better ones because they wanted to be able to get top dollar for the slaves when they sold them.
After being captured, the slaves were then tightly packed onto the ships and sailed back to America. The voyage that the slaves and slave capturers made back to America was called the Trans Atlantic voyage. The voyage to bring the Africans back to America normally lasted between eight and 10 weeks unless there were bad weather conditions that slowed them down. Lodge said it was not uncommon for...