Early Choices Spawned Slavery

Summary

       This article is talks about how slavery increased in the Americas and comparison to the indentured servants who were from Europe.

       They had different religions and different skin collar, so they were discriminated and brought in to the Americas as slaves. They were put into many tobacco, corn and other plantations. At that time, there were many indentured servants, but after a certain period of time, they are going to be free and might have a piece of land for themselves in one of the regions of America. The landowners wanted to have a slave that doesn’t get free and have them permanently. Also, European indentured servants became more expensive. Then slave trade started to boom and slaves from Africa were brought in. Africans didn’t known anything about the reason why they were brought. However, in order to maintain their lives, they relied on their masters and had to do what they say.

        It mainly introduces the sufferings that the African slaves had to suffer. 

Opinion

       I just want to say that they were just greedy for money. They didn’t really think the slaves were the same people as them. Like President Obama, people all have the equal chance of being leaders. We are all same people and he did something great in American History.

Relevance to Lesson

       This article mainly talks about the Slave trade & Indentured servants that I've learned in US History Class.

Article from: http://articles.dailypress.com/2013-02-23/news/dp-nws-slavery-talk-20130223_1_servants-africans-slavery
Posted on Feb 23, 2013