Slavery

It has been accounted that throughout American History, less than 1% of slaves in American ran away. Why? Some might argue that most slaves were too scared to even attempt to run away from their masters, other might say that it simply was nearly impossible to succeed at running away from the life of a slave. Slavery began in the early 1600’s in Jamestown where about twenty African American were sold for the aid of working the cash crop tobacco. This was the first introducing slavery to evolve. Bacons rebellion (1676) was the formal transition from indentured servants to slaves, where the refusal from William Berkley, to provide the promised land after the 7 year time as a indentured servant wasn't given. Indentured servants rebelled and many left Jamestown to gain their own land. This event was the first step of introducing slavery. Although many people opposed the growth of slavery, others were for it due to economic reasons such as slaves were used for farming and making good so that owners could sell and make profit off of not paying their slaves who worked. When abolitionist finally began to have a voice and attempted to turn slavery around, Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin certainly brought slavery to be needed more than debatable. The new invention could pick cotton 50 times more faster and efficiently. So as cotton flourished, the need for workers was necessary so the ideal workers were slaves, they worked hard, fast, and for free after being bought. So as slavery remained in most regions, more ideas for ending slavery also were introduced. For example, popular sovereignty, where people got to determine the status of slavery in their states “ self determination” helped those who strongly opposed slavery, make their state a free state. Slavery has played an inspirational role in the forming of American history because of the many people who were slaves themselves who attempted to help free slaves. For example, Harriet Tubman was a slave herself, who was the...