Slavery+in+the+American+Colonies

=Slavery in the American Colonies = 

 Maahum The start of African Americans started in the early 1600's. In 1619, a Dutch ship called the White Lion brought 20 slaves to America. This ship brought these slaves to Jamestown, Virginia. The Dutch ship, White Lion, was in need of supplies. The First English Colony, Jamestown, Virginia, was in need of healthy workers; since, it had lost so many during the war with the Native Americans. This is the first record of African Slavery in the American Colonies. In addition to African Slaves, Europeans, Scottish, English, and Germans, were brought in huge amounts as servants to the British 13 Colonies. The British Colonies were 13 colonies that were ruled under Britain. Over half than all white immigrants that come to America were servants. This established the beginning of black people's slavery in the United States. The people of Jamestown treated the African immigrants as servants. But the white European servants were freed and were allowed land. One black man, Anthony Johnson, eventually became a landowner and a slave owner himself. Very few black people were slave owners, along with some Native Americans. Most slave owners were white people.   African Americans were treated badly and some, like the European servants, managed to become free after several years. From the 1660's, the colonies began making laws that regulated slaves. One of these laws were black slaves, and the children of slave women, would be slaves all of their life. They served as guides, trappers, craftsmen, nurses, and house servants. Many served in agriculture and crops. The most important crop was tobacco, mainly in the upper south (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina). Slaves also worked in wheat-production In New York and Rhode Island. Slaves in the North were handled in small numbers and slavery never became as economically central as in the South
 * **When and where did slavery start in the American Colonies? **
 * ** How did slavery affect the American Colonies? **

 The Triangle Trade was a route that started in Europe. A ship there would carry goods to Africa. Slaves were loaded onto ships on the West Coast of Africa and then made the middle passage to the Americas. Slavey was brought to the United States from Europe. The Middle Passage was a sea voyage from the African Coast to the Americas. Slaves had to endure harsh living conditions within the ship, and many African Americans were killed by disease during the voyage. I was soon put under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life.- Olaudah Equiano Europeans brought slavery to America, South America, and the West Indies. Slavery fueled the Southern economy.   .The Spanish made large farms called plantations which needed many workers. The Native Americans could easily run away, so they found another source Africa. The Spanish brought many slaves to the New World to work on their plantations. When U.S. colonies started, slaves were brought from the Spanish Islands to work on farms in the English colonies. There are many names for the Middle Passage. Some names are "triangle trade," "circuit trade," "three cornered," and "transatlantic trade." Slaves taken by the British went south to the coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea. They bargained with African traders for tribe captives. Some slavers kidnapped unsuspecting natives and took them aboard their slave ships or kept them in waiting areas near the shore called "barracoons" or slave barracks. The voyage of the Middle Passage continued from Africa going across the Atlantic Ocean to one of the several ports in the West indies and Caribbean. The slaves were then loaded off and sold to work at sugar plantations. (Other stops along the Atlantic coast where slaves were exchanged
 * ** What was the process of transportation of slaves like? **

Europeans traveled to Africa many times for slave trade. Europeans usually raided villages and took captives. But the European slave trade had a devastating effect on West Africa. The population declined and the traditional ways of life collapsed as Europeans encouraged African states to turn on one another so there would be more slaves. Also there was the triangular trade. Europeans traveled to West Africa, close to coast line, and took many Africans as slaves Europeans traded guns and alcohol for slaves. Then the slaves were taken to the Caribbean or to the Americas. Finally, from the Americas, rum, sugar, tobacco, or cotton was taken back to Europe. This was a very famous trade around the Atlantic Ocean  <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> (The Cotton gin caused the number of enslaved Africans in the United States rose sharply—it reached almost 4 million just before the Civil War. Once the Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney, it increased cotton production substantially. Cleaning 50 pounds a day, whereas a slave could only clean one pound a day. The cotton gin was initially meant to decrease slavery but it really increased the amount of slaves, and the price of one. As cotton production increased each year, the price of an agricultural slave increased along with it. In the 1830s, slave migration in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas increased from 530,404 to 943,881. The congress did not do anything to stop slavery. Congress stopped slave trade but slavery was not stopped until after the civil war. (As slavery continued to expand more people began opposing slavery too. The South wanted to keep slavery and the North wanted to abolish it. This conflict added to the growing tensions leading to the Civil War. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What were some popular spots for slave trade? **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> How did slavery grow? **

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">The First Europeans kidnapped slaves by raiding villages in Africa by the coast. These raids made Africans angry and unwilling to trade with Europeans. Over time, there was a more organized form of trade. Europeans traded the African King and Chief guns and alcohol for prisoners. Many rulers thought admitting slavery was a good form of punishment, and other groups went more inland to kidnap more Africans. After this raid, the second stage was walking to the coastline and being imprisoned in European castles and forts. As trade increased, the Africans were sent in barracoons, where they waited for the slaving ships. European traders only bought healthy, young men, women and children. They disliked old, weak, and sick people. There are records that show there were 24 million African slaves that were taken captive. Millions of them died from disease and hunger. Many even died before reaching the coast, but millions had to suffer through the horrible journey over the atlantic.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**How were Africans taken captive?**