21 Century Slavery

After the War of 1812 the central theme running through our study of American history is racism that still affect us today in the 21 century. Slavery started when the colonies came to America in 1619 when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of jamestown when the colonies was trying to stay away from the british and declare their independence. Slavery was ongoing in the southern states. In the 1800’s many white slave owners believed that the African Americans were inferior to them even with the fact that “all men are created equal”. They were forced into labor and treated like property. The slave owners justify their behavior and believed they acted caring and conscientious to their slaves. however, the slaves
There were select groups of white men who realized the abuses of slavery and worked to abolish it. Not many white people admired these abolitionists, but as time went by their support was increased. In the 17 century europeans community in North America turned black people as slave, and some historians have estimated that six to seven million black slaves were imported to the New World during the 18th century. They were working mainly on the tobacco, rice and other plantations in colonies in Georgia, Virginia, and Maryland. In the 18th century in the fields they were using to grow tobacco, they were growing slavery even more because slavery was based on their economy, they wanted to continue slavery in the south, around this time in the 18th the markets of the textile industry in England led to a huge interest in American due to their growth of cotton in the south where the slaves were working, which was also a southern crop whose production was unfortunately limited by the difficulty of removing the seeds from raw cotton fibers by hand. Slavery itself was never comon in the North, they were mostly trading with Europe, their economy was based on trading. They did not need slaves for
Between the years 1774 and 1804, all of the northern states abolished slavery while slavery became absolutely fundamental in the south. In 1863 Lincoln forced that “slaves within any State, or designated part of a State…in rebellion,…shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” He was able to free over 3 million black slaves in the south. And finally Americans began a Civil War into slavery, the North wanted their freedom, and the South wanted to continue slavery, Nobody had any idea that this war would become the deadliest war in American history. It was not a traditional war, it was a civil war conflicting the Union in the North and the Confederate States in the South, The Civil War cost many people’s lives on the battlefield and beyond, It also costed an extreme amount of money for the nation which possibly could have been avoided if the war had turned to happen a little differently. Slavery should not had happened in the world, it still exist in some parts of the world like syria. As a result of slavery there is racism that still exist today, even tho it was worst after the Civil war, there are still people who thinks different people from different races, skin color, and who speaks different languages because they are from