Why Is Slavery Wrong

Slavery has always been an important part of our American history, from its start to the abolition of it, but how did slaves really come to our country, certainly they did not just appear in America. In the early 17th century, Settlers in North America started to use African slaves as a cheaper, largely available labor source, rather than indentured servants. In 1619 a Dutch ship brought 20 Africans to the colony of Jamestown, to work as servants for wealthy farmers. This was widely known to be what we know as the beginnings of Slavery in the New World. It was shortly after that when Slavery spread throughout the American Colonies, eventually being a must have for Plantation owners. In the 18th Century about 6-7 million slaves from Africa were captured and brought to the New World. At the time 6-7 million was about ⅓ of
Even if Slaves had been kindly treated it would still have been completely wrong and unjustifiable. This is because Slavery denies people their most basic rights; freedom, equality,and our value as a living person not ¾ ‘a person. It is still completely wrong to keep a person as a possession like a tool. And treat them like that. Slavery is the now illegal capture of Africans, and selling of Africans as Servants or Possessions to a planter. To be a slave is to be owned by another person. An enslaved person is a human being made to be a slave. A Chattel slave is an enslaved person who is owned forever, and whose children’s children are enslaved at birth .Planters had Slaves to tend their crops and act as servants for their homes. Slaves were denied the “fruits of their labor” because all the long hours and cruel punishments they endured to produce cash crops, was worth nothing, as the planters inherited all the money and produce from their slaves