How Did Slavery Influence The Growth Of The American Colonies

When thinking of the growth of the American colonies in the early 1600s and early 1700s, slavery might not come to a consideration. Slavery is commonly known as the ownership to a human being for the use of labor or cheap labor. Slavery will be always frown upon since the thought of just owning a human will always be morally wrong, but slaves did play a huge role in the growth of American colonies and allowing the colonies to prosper economically. Slavery was a common trend for large world powers like the British, Spanish and Dutch even before the colonization in the America’s began. Slaves played a huge impact on economic, societal and political views in the colonies. When the British decided to start expanding their resources and growing
Slavery brought a huge diversity among people in all of the country. Both the North and Southern colonies did really depend on slavery for financial purposes, but reacted to slavery in different ways. The North was a land of acceptance and tried to give slaves and African American more liberties and as well the respect these people should be given because at the end of the day slaves are just like any other human being, people with feelings, emotions and a beating heart. Slaves faced so much pain if it was the physical marks given by cruel slave owners or the feeling of a broken heart because these people were split from families and taken forcefully from their homes and shipped off across the Atlantic Ocean on unhumanitarian
Slavery was vital to Southern economy. It had an overall smaller population and there was a much larger class divide between the wealthy and the poor. Leaders in the South were landowners with many slaves. Slave holding was a status symbol for any Southerner and yet only 25% of Southerners owned slaves. Still, Southern whites, even the poorest, had a higher status than a black Southerner and therefore they had a stake in slavery whether they owned slaves or not. Slavery was not only economical but deeply cultural. Religion in the South was different as well with less focus on public reforms and more on personal salvation. Southerners viewed Northerners and cold, controlling and money-hungry. Things only got