Slavery In Colonial America

Slavery has been such a horrific part of history as it documents the human violations Africans have endured, which have been depicted through films, televisions, and all sorts of the media. The transformation of slavery from simple servitude to race-based slavery happened almost immediately after the New World was “discovered.” Slavery in Africa was based not on color or race but on the winners and losers of wars. There were four things that greatly contributed to African, race-based slavery: the European attitude towards Africans, the European attitudes toward slavery, the overall labor shortage in the New World due to the failure of European and Native American laborers, and the great ease that the Europeans had in getting slaves in Africa. Slavery initiated within Colonial America due to economic, social, and political factors, having an effect

Slavery was exceptionally more cheaper than indentured servitude as there is full limit on the access of freedom obtained by the slaves. Continuing the argument, the agricultural cultivation of rice and tobacco was tremendously high and they need a great number of people to facilitate and govern the growth of these crops in order to be involved in any goods transaction, hence the enslaved labor of Africans. The traditional economy of the colonies required that British colonists needed more people to work on their farms in order to be monetarily stable and not descend to indentured servitude. Rice farming in South Carolina required a huge investment of labor, which introduced a great quantity of stolen Africans, which lead to them being labeled as slaves. The Africans now greatly outnumbered the whites, producing a number of riots and violent discrepancies on their enslavement. This sparked a harsh slave trade, whoch can be observed in the barbarous slave code. This was in order to enforce fear and dominance to prevent any more riots in all matters and