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A 9 page overview of what life was like for seventeenth century African slaves in the American
colonies. The author traces the slave experience from its point of origin in Africa to the homes of the white slave owners. This paper emphasizes
that the African American slave experience was quite diverse. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Page Count:
9 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPslav17.rtf
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tells us that it was the white peoples of European origin that came to dominate not only the land and its resources but also the other peoples that lived during
this time period. Along with these white peoples, however, came an assortment of other peoples. One of the most unfortunate of these new arrivals was the African slave.
African slaves were commonly taken out of Africa against their will during this time period. Incredulously, they were often sold into slavery by their own people. Africa
must have been an earthy, primal memory, for those blacks who were sold into slavery in the Americas. Black slavery in the so-called "New World" varied from a somewhat
caring relationship between an owner and slave to a callous relationship in which the slave was subjected to numerous inhuman conditions and treatments. It would begin in 1619 in
the colonies with the arrival of a Dutch ship to Jamestown Virginia. The cargo, in part, included twenty black men. The journey could not have been pleasant.
These men were likely chained in the bowels of the ship that transported them to the Americas. They would have seen no sunlight and been fed only enough to
keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and tribulations they would face in the new land.
In a discussion of this early history of slavery in the Americas it is first important to note that Africans were not the only ones put into slavery
here nor was America the only place where slavery occurred. In reality the practice of slavery encompassed all races and extends back thousands of years. It is not
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