Slavery Runaways

Slavery began when the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans and brought them to America, slowly creating a slavery system that evolved into a nightmare of abuse and cruelty that would create split between the nation.

In 1619, when the slaves were brought to America in a “human cargo” the colonists had no model for slavery, so the Africans were put as indentured servants with the poor Europeans. And as an indentured servant, they would earn land and freedom in exchange for seven years of hard labor. And as they were indentured servants, the colonist prospered and were reluctant to lose their labors so many africans as indentured servants never got their promise of freedom and land. Because exports grew more profitable for the colonists,

Africans became workers with no rights. Which created slavery and became legalized in 1641, because the Africans labor were more valuable than being known as humans. So slavery began to spread within the colonies. And slaves were to be owned as property.
As in the early 17th and 18th century African American slaves helped build the economic foundation of the new nation. An estimation of six to seven million slaves imported to America during the 18th century alone. Depriving the African continent by taking the healthiest and ablest men and women that were Africans to American use, as property. Many of these Africans were enslaved as a child, and many were taken away from their families. As the institution of slavery was developing and continuing to support the economic system. The more money the white elite made, the more it was in their interest to make a slave system work out in their colony.
The slaves wanted freedom, and didn’t agree with the idea of being owned as property.

And as many as slaves runaway, the one that were caught would face cruel punishments. But during this time Americans, the new colonists, were facing a challenge of gaining their independence from Britain, which caused a Revolutionary War in 1775. And this war also allowed African Americans to fight on the American side, with hope that they may gain their own freedom by fighting for the independance of America. And as the war ended in 1783, so did many colonies in the northern states abolish slavery. As the nation gathered together to create the Declaration of Independence, nothing in the constitution said anything about freeing the slaves. But creating the three-fifths compromise as counting three-fifths of slaves as a free person as a representation in the states. The southern state had soon wanted to secede from the nation and become their own. And Abraham Lincoln as president at the time, he didn’t want the nation being divided into two. So he declares war on the south, to keep the nation as one whole. Many thought that the civil war was based on slavery, but it was to keep the nation together. But many of the African americans fought on the northern side, because slavery was already abolished, they hoped for it to be fully abolished as a new nation fighting on the northern side. The war ends in May 9, 1865 with the northern states winning, and creating freedom to the

country.
Slavery had come from a long way, they still faced many challenges with the certain rights they had. But it all came to an end to create what America is today.