Slavery in the United States

I chose this topic because I found it to be very interesting and for the simple fact that in every social studies class i have learned about slaves and the backround of them and how slaves struggled so much to get at least food or money and that it not cool so i think it is interesting to learn more about slaves.

In the year 1776 Slavery in the United States was a form of unfree labor which existed as a legal institution in North America for more than a century before the founding of the United States. Most slaves were black and were held by whites and there were also small number of blacks and Native Americans that were also slaver owners.The majority of slaveholders were in the southern United States, where most of the slaves were working on farms.

From the 1770s through the 1860s, Slavery was a contentious issue in the politics in the United States. the politics debated on issues such as the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Slavery was the main issues leading to leading to the American Civil War.

Slavery existed in all the colonies. People enslaved in the North typically worked as house servants, artisans, laborers and craftsmen.slaves in the south worked primarily in agriculture, on farms and plantations growing indigo , rice, and tobacco; cotton. Tobacco was very labor intensive, as was rice cultivation