Slavery In The Nineteenth Century

The existence of slavery happened to be one of the most inhumane acts that Americans instituted into everyday life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Slavery started with indentured servants in 1630, and eventually transformed into the slavery that we commonly think of today. The dark times originated when Africans were brought over for the use of labor for white farmers, but through much effort some whites and Africans bonded together and broke the unjust rules.
Before Africans were popular as slaves, farmer’s slaves remained white. The reasoning for slaves or indentured servants was for the use of labor. Farmers in the New World were growing an abundance of tobacco, and they could not watch over it all. Indians happened to be dying left and right, and at the time, around 1630, African slaves cost an extravagant amount of money. In England there stood many men who wanted to go to the New World, but did not have the money to get there. The men begged for jobs. They were sent over to work for planters in the New World as indentured servants. Men would work for whomever and then their masters would pay for their passages, and if they had enough money to live on their own, they would be freed. Radical changes developed in the 1680’s; farmers thought that their indentured servants would build up a mutiny so they
The first known accounts of slavery occurred as early as 1619, in Jamestown. Originally, the Dutch brought a ship of twenty African men over to colonial America, and the use of slaves took off from there (Slavery in America). “Slaves were most economical on large farms where labor-intensive cash crops, such as tobacco, could be grown” (Slavery in the United States). According to various statistical accounts it is possible that approximately six to seven million slaves traveled into the New World during the 1700’s (Slavery in