American Slavery

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The paper attempts to describe how American slavery existed for at least one hundred and fifty years in the antebellum South. The paper explains how white supremacy, conservative religious beliefs, and the agrarian/agricultural way of life, almost wholly determined the structure of slave life that involved a lack of welfare, horrible living conditions and disrupted family life.

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"The history of slavery in the United States is a very long and complicated tale, one filled with much violence, murder and mayhem. Beginning roughly in the early 1700's, white Southerners began to bring, if not kidnap, native peoples from many regions of the world to work on their plantations. Most of these kidnapped individuals were from Africa and were brought to America on sailing ships overflowing with disease, hunger and death. In fact, many of those aboard these ships did not survive the long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to such cities as Boston in the North, Savannah in the state of Georgia and Charleston in the state of South Carolina, long considered as the heart of the Deep South."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Intro. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Bantam Classics, 1989.

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