Slavery: Life During The American Revolution

American Slavery Young America was founded on some major principles. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was the structural philosophy during the war front of the American Revolution. Oddly enough, the life values young America was fighting for was not represented for everyone in America’s beginning of time. The early colonies economy solely depended on trade and mercantilism. Each section of the colonies produced their own type of merchandise that was only produced in that location of the colonies. While New England traded for example fish and ships, the middle colonies traded corn and wheat. The southern colonies made their contribution by trading tobacco, cotton, and many more raw materials. The New England colonies had more small farms, fishing villages, and eventually factories that were all ran by the land owners and hired workers. On the other hand, the middle colonies along with the southern colonies depended on the labor of imported slaves to produce their raw
They needed someone who would work sun up to sun down efficiently and not consume too many resources. Slavery had been around for numerous amounts of years when the colonist decided this would be their best option. The farmer owners were able to purchase numerous amounts of slaves for way cheaper than hiring other colonists. The imported slaves did not have any knowledge of the land they were coming to, and were also uneducated in the English language. The owners did not have to worry about the slaves running away because the slaves did not know where they were, much less where to go to escape. The slaves also could not read which means they could not find out what was going on outside their owner’s farm. For the large farm owners, this was the perfect scenario. They could control how their farm was ran without having to worry about salaries, revolts, or the problems in hiring other