SLAVERY

“There is no Such Thing as Rest - Slavery”



“There is no Such Thing as Rest - Slavery”

The historical events that provided the foundation of slavery within the U.S.

Slavery in the United States is the continuation and development of slavery from centuries ago, which was already in the 13 colonies which existed from which the USA emerged in the 1776. The colonization of the Americas during the 16 to 19 Century coincided with a mass enslavement of Africans that were used in all parts of the sparsely populated continent double as cheap labor. This affects not only the British, Dutch, Swedish, French and Spanish colonies, which arose later from the U.S., but an even greater extent Brazil and the European colonies in the Caribbean. In the North American continent, slavery became, however, manifestations that were unique to the double continent, and after founding the U.S. she was caught between an economy that was built on the labor of slaves, and the political program of a young nation, whose self-understanding prominently the idea of freedom underlay (Sowell, 2005).

The slaves are used as domestic servants and in the agricultural sector, especially in plantations of tobacco and then cotton, which is required in the nineteenth century as the main export crop of the country. In total, thirteen colonies and the United States imports about 600 000 Africans, or 5% of total slaves deported to the Americas, until the ban on Atlantic slave trade in 1808. Before the Civil War, the 1860 U.S. census are four million slaves in the country. The degree of autonomy that they have managed to exercise caution within the operating system they have experienced has created a unique culture that borrows from both their original African culture and that of their masters.

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