New York Slave Revolt Of 1712 Essay
The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York City. New York enacted laws that restricted the lives of enslaved peoples. A slave market was built near present-day Wall Street to accommodate the increase in slaves being imported by the Royal African Company. By the early 1700s about 20 percent of the population were African slaves. Slaves were limited and required to carry a pass to be able to travel more than a mile from home, couldn't gather in groups of more than three people, marriage was discouraged, and they were separated into galleries during church services. The North’s largest motive to free the slaves was their argument that the slaves were taking jobs away from whites. However slavery was against their Christian beliefs
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Whites complained about people coming and taking their jobs. Without blacks, white men would have even more opportunities for work. Even more so when slavery would finally be abolished. Many abolitionists hoped for blacks to go back to their home land, which would provide whites with more room and job opportunities.
Even though relatively all white men in America were of some branch of Christianity, many did not let their religious beliefs get in the way of them being proslavery. Other white men that were antislavery embraced their christian beliefs and understood that slavery was not part of God’s will. Slavery was cruel and Inhumane, it took someone that actually saw the reality of these things to want to abolish slavery.
The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness….” The North argues this point to politically support the abolishment of slavery. Abolitionists and Antislavery Americans understood that this statement in the Declaration is not exclusively for white men. Every man born in the United States of America is born with these unalienable rights that cannot be taken away; it is not exclusively for white men, which is argued by the proslavery Americans.
Whites complained about people coming and taking their jobs. Without blacks, white men would have even more opportunities for work. Even more so when slavery would finally be abolished. Many abolitionists hoped for blacks to go back to their home land, which would provide whites with more room and job opportunities.
Even though relatively all white men in America were of some branch of Christianity, many did not let their religious beliefs get in the way of them being proslavery. Other white men that were antislavery embraced their christian beliefs and understood that slavery was not part of God’s will. Slavery was cruel and Inhumane, it took someone that actually saw the reality of these things to want to abolish slavery.
The Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness….” The North argues this point to politically support the abolishment of slavery. Abolitionists and Antislavery Americans understood that this statement in the Declaration is not exclusively for white men. Every man born in the United States of America is born with these unalienable rights that cannot be taken away; it is not exclusively for white men, which is argued by the proslavery Americans.