Chattel Slavery Research Paper

History of Slavery and Slave Narratives

Did you know slavery has always been part of Human Society? Slaves have been in history for thousands of years. The oldest records of slavery can be found in the oldest of records. The oldest record that includes references of slavery can be found in the Sumerian Code of Nammu which contains laws regarding to slaves. Slaves were in all societies who practiced the institution usually gathered their slaves from other conquered cities and kingdoms. Slavery in Colonial times came when Britain began creating Colonies in North and South America to produce and harvest raw materials to create manufactured goods in Britain. Slaves came to America in order to work massive plantations that produced raw
The System of Chattel Slavery was used in America and was now based on race. Under the chattel slavery systems slaves were viewed as property and not seen as a human being. They were less than human in the eyes of the colonist, and more like commodities. During the times the more slaves one owned the higher your status, just how it applies to farmers and cattle.
The First slaves spoke in their native tongue, and still worshipped their African spirits and gods. Slave owners tried began to take away the origins of Africans to demolish their morality. They accomplished this by separating slaves that knew the same language or slaves who shared the same tribe or family. After they were separated they were then forcefully converted to Christianity and Disemboweled (in words of the Christians) from their African traditions.
Slavery then became an essential institution in early United States because of the wealth being generated in it. Slaves brought much wealth to the colonist from the cash crops produced in the massive plantations; this gave further reason for the slave’s owners as well as the government officials in the Colonial United States in having their own personal reasons not to stop this imprisonment of fellow human
The mistress of the slave-owner also became jealous of Jacobs. She wrote of one account “I had entered my sixteenth year, and every day it became more apparent that my presence was intolerable to Mrs. Flint. Angry words frequently passed between her and her husband. He had never punished me himself, and he would not allow anybody else to punish me. In that respect, she was never satisfied; but, in her angry moods, no terms were too vile for her to bestow upon me. Yet I, whom she detested so bitterly, had far more pity for her than he had whose duty it was to make her life happy. I never wronged her, or wished to wrong her; and one word of kindness from her would have brought me to her feet.” (Pp.2, Chapter VI, “Incidents in the life of a slave