The Salem Witch Trials In The Seventeenth-Century

In the seventeenth-century, many people believed in things such as magic, astrology, and witchcraft. Witches were believed to have made a pact with the devil to obtain supernatural powers. So when bad things, such as crops failing or if a child was born stillborn, started to occur, many people started to blame witches. Beginning in late 1691, many girls were being accused of being a witch during the Salem Witch Trials. The accusers believed that their lives were in danger and that these so-called “witches” were causing all this evil to occur. All they wanted to do was free their land of evil, so they started to prosecute people that were accused of witchcraft. Since the only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and to name others, accusations

That year, a ship carrying African slaves docked at Jamestown's checkpoint for ships wanting to trade with the colonists. The crew of the ship was starving, and traded 20 African slaves for food and supplies. This marked the beginning of slavery in America. The trade of slaves started along with the trade of other goods around the world. Many White Americans bought slaves to work in their fields and to do the work that they did not want to do. Life for slaves back in the colonial period was rough. But during the early colonial period, slaves and indentured servants enjoyed greater freedoms than black slaves would in later periods. But even then, they belonged to the lowest, poorest ranks of society. In many colonies, slaves weren’t allowed to be part of wage-earning trade or labor. In others they were denied the right to own property. The slave's depended on his or her master for the most basic necessities such as food, clothing, shelter. This was necessary for the masters to keep their power their slave society. Many of the slaves got beat and whipped for messing up or even when their owner just felt like it. Of course it depended on the owner, but most of the slaves lived rough