Blog 4
The concept itself of the slavery is neither specifically differentiated nor certainly separated. Slavery used to exist in every colony which is the most stupid things that is totally outraging. The legalized practice of enslaving blacks occurred in every colony, but the economic realities of the southern colonies perpetuated the institution first legalized in Massachusetts in 1641. There are still common points in use of slavery; it is the labor demand for agricultural system and economic viability. On the other hand, from the beginning history of the United States, there are several differences between the colony era of the United States and that of Africa.
Puritan New England, Virginia, Spanish Florida, and the Carolina colonies engaged large-Long time ago, when Native Americans were enslaved by the Europeans, they were able to escape due to their familiarity of geographic factors or so. Scale enslavement of Native Americans, often through the use of Indian proxies to wage war and acquire the slaves. Some Native American tribes held war captives as slaves prior to and during European colonization, some Native Americans were captured and sold by others into slavery to Europeans, and a small number of tribes, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, adopted the practice of holding slaves as chattel property and held increasing numbers of African American slaves. Although twenty Africans brought into Virginia in early 1600’s by virtue of the slave trade, they actually became indentured servants and then gained freedom at the last. However, by the 1640’s, practices of enslaving had been established in Virginia and within following two decades, had achieved legal recognition of the entire nation. As the effect of slavery in America, the British army, eager to debase the colonial economy, freed many slaves as they moved through the American South. Many slaves in the North were granted their freedom if they agreed to fight for the American cause. Although a clear majority of African Americans remained in bondage, the growth of free black communities in America was greatly fostered by the War for American Independence.
On the other hand, although a few native America groups were enslaved in colonial America especially between the 1670s and the early 1700s in Carolina, where predatory raids victimized, Africans, for several reasons, became America’s prime bondsmen. Indians were familiar with the terrain and could thus easily run away, and there was fear that their enslavement would bring about continual warfare and also disrupt the lucrative fur trade. Europeans, because of their color, could escape and be mistaken easily as free person. It is still really hard to accept the fact that Europeans in the past had classified people by color and discriminated them without any respect or something regarding to the very basic human rights.
In the early 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to Africa slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants who were mostly poorer Europeans.
One of the presidents of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, had mentioned that “those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves”, and this is absolutely true for everyone regardless of race, gender, age, and any other perspectives that each person might have. The desperate wretches that several European invaders had brought was based on willingness to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, which was rather lamentable than strange. Men are not commodity, thus should not be traded or something. As people are not convicted of forfeiting freedom, they have still a natural, perfect right to it and the government whenever they come should, in justice set them free and punish those who hold human being in slavery. Certainly, one may, with as much reason and decency, plead for murder, robbery, lewdness and barbarity, as for this practice. They are not more contrary to the natural dictates of conscience, and feeling of humanity; they are all comprehended in it. Slavery is one of the most notorious perceptions that should never realize ever again and furthermore, qualified education through lessons from the past would be persistently needed at the same time.