How Did Slavery Affect The American

When Europeans first landed on North American territory, domination was vital. Europeans would take out whoever was in their way if they did not collaborate with them. The Americas, which was once solitude for the American Indians, quickly came crashing down when the Europeans arrived. English settlers treated undesirable people with no respect. English settlers viewed themselves above all others as being the best, and when Indians, African slaves and “witches” came along, no respect was given to them.
The first use of African slaves in the New World was in Barbados, a Caribbean island settled just north of what is now Venezuela. This island was a key economic figure to the English. The island managed to avoid the European rivalry stretched throughout the Caribbean at
Slavery in Barbados paved the way on such influence slavery had in the eighteenth century. According to Keene (pg 77), by the eighteenth century, racial slavery had become a central feature of the Atlantic world. About 300,000 slaves were brought to North America for their labor in the upper and lower South. Brutality of slavery began way before they were brought to the Americas. Brutality began in Africa, where slave catchers had to capture them with ropes and wooden yokes where they would then be lead to the coast and placed into pens, scattered from their ethnic tribe to reduce the chance of the slaves communicating to plot their escape. Slaves could be housed in their pens for months until they were finally boarded onto slave ships, however the treatment was not any better. The expedition from Africa to the Americas was a difficult one, it was called the middle passage. What made it so difficult were the cramped quarters that the shackled slaves were put into. Captors would maximize the amount of slaves put into the ship with no bother on whether or not the slave’s health