Essay On Slavery In America

Slavery might have been one of the biggest events that have impacted not only America but also, the entire world. If it weren’t for slavery the United Stated Of America wouldn’t be the most richest and power country in the world. Slavery was the foundation of the American’s economy. Slave were the most valuable thing in the nation, beside land. One of the biggest exports was the plantation system, such as cotton and tabacco, and unloding ships for which it was gathered by slaves. This event increased the number slave owned in the white population. Africans were sold like an item to different countries from which they were owned by the Indian Company. They were bought here from Africa and Europe. This event infuriated me when they Indian Company finally accepted “half-freedom”, which it’s till slavery, but with the privilege of living with a wife, whom also had to do work, but their offspring, their children, were fully slaved.

In the 1850 's when, Harries Jacob began writing an autobiography, who was the first African-American who revealved the truth about American slavery. African-American were one of the most valuable thing in the nation, as I mention before, but yet, they were the one who were the most discriminated in the United States. They were the one who had to do the hard work, who were punished and beatted, the ones who suffered from hunger and made all critical labors but yet had to do all the hard labor, such as working in crops, building bridges, buildings, etc. The Civil War, led to Abraham Lincholn to accepted the Emancipation Proclamation in the 1862 's, which stated that slavery was going to be ablolished for once and for all, and all slaves must be