Slavery In America

The Civil War was one of the worst events to happen in the United States, it created separation between people and caused so many to die from fighting for what they believed was right, depending on if they were fighting for the Union or the Confederacy. After the war ended and the Union won, America…

“I did not know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”-Frederick Douglass. The historical non-fiction novel, American Slavery: 1619-1877, by Peter Kolchin, describes the overview of slavery in America. This novel specifically focuses on the life of a slave throughout the colonial period all the way through…

Slaves constituted about one-third of the southern population in the United States during the 1790s to 1860s and most slaves are bought to work on large plantations to help their masters on the sugar and cotton plantation which requires a lot of manual work and hard labor. Slave owners made their slaves completely dependent on…

Slavery in America began in 1619 when Dutch traders seized African Americans from a captured Spanish ship. Although some historians claim that slavery began in 1640 when African Americans were officially considered slaves. From this point on, African Americans have been continuously oppressed for something they cannot control. They have been restricted in their lives…