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Slavery has been a concept that has existed since the first awakenings of human pride, for what is slavery in essence but a base need for a culture to rise above another, less developed culture. Slavery began in North America in 1619 with the exchange of a Dutch slave trader’s Black cargo for provisions in Jamestown, Virginia. These African Americans were labeled as “indentured servants,” but in truth, they were slaves that were made to work on the tobacco farms of the colony. When slaveholders realized the value of free labor, and how it increased their capital, the slave trade caught on quickly. Slavery was referred to as the “peculiar institution” by its practitioners, and was fostered by the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, which allowed slaves to deseed about a thousand pounds of cotton a day, compared to the one pound produced without the cotton gin. Slavery was the most prevalent in the South, where slaves were needed to help tend large tobacco and cotton fields, whereas the north was more focused on industry and trade. The history of slavery is a long and painful period, but slaveholders had many reasons to keep slaves, perceived or not. Those explanations fell under five different categories: religious, economic, moral, sociological, and political. Many slaveholders looked to their religions to justify slavery. The slaveholders believed that they were helping to educate the Africans and turn them from a life of “filth and nakedness” by converting them to Christianity.
Approximate Word count = 963
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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