Root of Greed
Root of Greed
Money is the fuel, the pursuits to the things we need like food, education, medicine, and our well-being. We as human beings want and desire those things which are far from our grips, but are only attainable with the exchange of money. In this case acquiring items like guns and other goods, the exchange is not of money, but humans. People do imaginable things to acquire it by lying, stealing, and even murder. The start of The story of slavery as a result of lust, greed, and gain all began after the voyage of Christopher Columbus discovery of the new world. He saw what the land had to offer which was a wealth of …that needed more laborers which were the natives to manage it than the land had to offer at the time. And that’s how the need for African slaves was introduced into the New World. By the beginning of the 18th century, black slaves could be found in every New World area colonized by Europeans, from Nova Scotia to Buenos Aires. It was not the Europeans intentions to use black people as the primary source for labor in the 18th century, because the Europeans needed more people to raise crops, clear forests, and mine precious metals. In every New World colony, Europeans experimented with Indian slavery, convict labor, and white indentured servants. The Europeans turned to Africans mainly because there were so many of them. When the Europeans arrived at the New World they brought with them rampant diseases that reduced the native population. As a result there were not enough natives laborers to keep up with the work that needed to be done. Initially, English colonists relied on indentured white servants rather than on black slaves, because half the immigrants were convicts or indentured servants. As late as 1640, there were probably only 150 blacks in Virginia (the colony with the highest black population), and in 1650, 300. But by 1680, the number had risen to 3,000 and by 1704, to 10,000. Faced by a shortage of white indentured
Money is the fuel, the pursuits to the things we need like food, education, medicine, and our well-being. We as human beings want and desire those things which are far from our grips, but are only attainable with the exchange of money. In this case acquiring items like guns and other goods, the exchange is not of money, but humans. People do imaginable things to acquire it by lying, stealing, and even murder. The start of The story of slavery as a result of lust, greed, and gain all began after the voyage of Christopher Columbus discovery of the new world. He saw what the land had to offer which was a wealth of …that needed more laborers which were the natives to manage it than the land had to offer at the time. And that’s how the need for African slaves was introduced into the New World. By the beginning of the 18th century, black slaves could be found in every New World area colonized by Europeans, from Nova Scotia to Buenos Aires. It was not the Europeans intentions to use black people as the primary source for labor in the 18th century, because the Europeans needed more people to raise crops, clear forests, and mine precious metals. In every New World colony, Europeans experimented with Indian slavery, convict labor, and white indentured servants. The Europeans turned to Africans mainly because there were so many of them. When the Europeans arrived at the New World they brought with them rampant diseases that reduced the native population. As a result there were not enough natives laborers to keep up with the work that needed to be done. Initially, English colonists relied on indentured white servants rather than on black slaves, because half the immigrants were convicts or indentured servants. As late as 1640, there were probably only 150 blacks in Virginia (the colony with the highest black population), and in 1650, 300. But by 1680, the number had risen to 3,000 and by 1704, to 10,000. Faced by a shortage of white indentured
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