Effects Of Slavery Research Paper

Effects of Slavery: Past and Present

The British Empire began establishing colonies in North America in the year 1607. In the 1620s, a majority of the manual labor was executed by indentured servants who worked the tobacco fields. It was not until the late 1600s that slave ownership became a mainstream establishment in Virginia. With free labor accessible and an abundance of land, plantation owners profited and thrived. By the early 1700s, indentured servants had been almost totally replaced and the economy of the British colonies was almost completely dependent on slave labor making it socially and economically standard (“African Slavery in Colonial British North America.”).

Thomas Jefferson was born to Jane Randolph and Peter Jefferson

He states that “there must… be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people by habit” (567). The manners causing the “unhappy influence” would be those of a slave owner, as one must be able to completely surrender oneself to rage and wrath in order to treat another living being as some slave owners did. He calls the practice of slavery a “perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions” for the slave owner and “the most unremitting despotism” for the slaves themselves. This is probably the basis for his opinion on why adults ought not display this behavior before

That which a child observes in youth inevitably affects the child’s perception of and reaction to the world as well as the rest of the child’s life. According to Dr. Jeffrey Edleson, these issues can be segmented into three major categories: “behavioral and emotional problems, cognitive functioning and attitudes, and longer-term problems” (Para. 2). These problems can and likely will become tradition for the subsequent generations if ignored, covered up, or otherwise only partially