Slavery In American Society

Slavery began in the 15th century when the Atlantic Slave trade was developed where many African men, women, and children were forcibly transported from their homeland in Africa to the Americas which changed the aspect of the New World. Slavery had a negative impact socially and politically of the New World. Africans were like property towards the white, were treated like animals, and viewed lower than the white. Because of the inhumanity of slavery, it led to the instability of society in the Americas such as slave revolts, class divisions of the rich and poor, and inequality between the blacks and whites. Slavery had a negative impact politically because discrimination led to wars and political conflicts. The formation of slavery in the
The American society was racially divided by skin color and socially divided by privileged rights of white men and less privileged rights of black men. Causes of the division of society are the unbalanced rights where the whites had more rights than the black. When slaves were transported to the Americas, they made an agreement to work for seven years in return for their migration or crimes and would eventually become free men. Slaves and free slave had little to no rights and were living under control of their owners because of the creation of the slave code. The slave code made the slaves and free men very furious and want to revolt as their revenge and their desire for liberty. The creation of the slave code made the African or African Americans made their inhumanity life get worse. Slaves already had no rights but, free black slaves still had little to no rights and were treated and viewed as animals. The slave codes caused the division between the white and black and the discrimination and disrespect of the white towards the free slaves made them outraged. In the eighteenth century, an Enlightenment philosopher named Rousseau wrote about the equality and equal rights of all human beings. In Great Britain, they believe they would change society by abolishing slavery. The abolishment of slavery transformed into a new society. In the 1800s-late 1900s, the Africans or African Americans still did not have fair rights. In the Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King, he wants to get civil rights for the African Americans and to end racial segregation. Slavery had a very negative impact on society in the Americas because of the inequality and differences, there would be serious consequences between