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Martin on April 16, at PM. Eric S. Galton Terrell on May 12, at AM. Jon on May 20, at PM. Hundreds of thousands of Africans, both free and enslaved, aided the establishment and survival of colonies in the Americas and the New World. However, many consider a significant starting point to slavery in America to be , when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 enslaved African ashore in the British colony of Jamestown , Virginia.
Throughout the 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to enslaved Africans as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants, who were mostly poor Europeans. Though it is impossible to give accurate figures, some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million enslaved people were imported to the New World during the 18th century alone, depriving the African continent of some of its healthiest and ablest men and women.
It Just Surfaced. In the 17th and 18th centuries, enslaved Africans worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast, from the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Maryland and Virginia south to Georgia. But after the Revolutionary War , the new U. In the late 18th century, with the land used to grow tobacco nearly exhausted, the South faced an economic crisis, and the continued growth of slavery in America seemed in doubt.
Around the same time, the mechanization of the textile industry in England led to a huge demand for American cotton, a southern crop whose production was limited by the difficulty of removing the seeds from raw cotton fibers by hand. But in , a young Yankee schoolteacher named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin , a simple mechanized device that efficiently removed the seeds.
Between and , all of the northern states abolished slavery, but the institution of slavery remained absolutely vital to the South. Though the U. Congress outlawed the African slave trade in , the domestic trade flourished, and the enslaved population in the United States nearly tripled over the next 50 years. By it had reached nearly 4 million, with more than half living in the cotton-producing states of the South. An escaped enslaved man named Peter showing his scarred back at a medical examination in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Enslaved people in the antebellum South constituted about one-third of the southern population.
Once they were forcibly accustomed to slave labor, many were then brought to plantations on American soil. Popular culture is rich with references to years of oppression. There seems to be confusion between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the institution of slavery, confusion only reinforced by the Bible, Genesis :. The American part of the story lasted fewer than years. How, then, do we calculate the timeline of slavery in America? Africans first arrived in America in the late 16th century not as slaves but as explorers together with Spanish and Portuguese explorers.
As far as the institution of chattel slavery — the treatment of slaves as property — in the United States, if we use as the beginning and the 13th Amendment as its end, then it lasted years, not Truth : Roughly 25 percent of all Southerners owned slaves.
The fact that one-quarter of the southern population were slaveholders is still shocking to many. This truth brings historical insight to modern conversations about inequality and reparations. When it established statehood, the Lone Star State had a shorter period of Anglo-American chattel slavery than other southern states — only to — because Spain and Mexico had occupied the region for almost one-half of the 19th century with policies that either abolished or limited slavery. Still, the number of people impacted by wealth and income inequality is staggering.
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