The word slavery cannot only be defined as the owning of one person by another person, but it is also known to be one of the greatest contributions to the history of the United States. When slavery had just began to evolve the United States were known as colonies of the New World. In the year of 1619, the first African Americans arrived in the New World right off the coast of Jamestown. From then on, …
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…to the hot and grim working conditions, while the Indian and white slaves were not. This resulted in another reason for the explosion of black slavery. All these factors and more contributed to the rise of African slavery in the Americas. The prejudiced ways of the white settlers found the cheap cost and quality labor of black slaves overwhelming and in turn helped to create one of the most infamous eras in U.S. history.