Why Is Slavery In America Inevitable

Slavery coming to America was inevitable because so many explorers traveled to American and brought their various customs and practices with them. The rise of slavery in America was largely due to agriculture because slave were property and a commodity and from the tobacco plantations to the cotton fields slavery helped boost the economy of both the north and south because it was so profitable and they had the supply and the supply was in demand. There was a lot of racism that was inherent in slavery in America and the whites wanted it to be that way because it gave them power, even the poorest of whites had power over slave making them aspire and socially powerful, more importantly they felt it was justify and would ensure self-preservation.

Although, the primary way in which slaves rebelled against slavery was by running away to the Northern free states or to Canada because those places did not have any fugitive slave laws in place, and in which cases, if they were caught they would most likely be executed. Most runaway slave were younger men, however the most famous runaway slave was Harriet Tubman (“Moses”) who later became famous for aiding thousands of slaves runaway on the underground railroad. However, throughout the course of slavery, black rebelled by running away from a day to permanently, or through armed rebellion that involved beating and killing their white overseers, which most often resulted in the execution of Blacks and sometime innocent ones. The most notable full scale rebellions includes Gabriel rebellion in the 1800’s, then in 1811 a group of slaves in Louisiana seized knife and guns among other thing and started to march on the city before they were stopped by the militia. Then in 1822, a slave named Denmark Messy is believed to have organized a group of slave to rebel in South Carolina. The most famous and successful rebellion was the Nat turner rebellion in 1831. Most of the trails that were held for the slave rebellions were not fair trials and as a result, the slaves were found guilt and