Slavery+in+the+early+colonies

The first generation of the slaves that came to America was started from Africa. Usually when the salves were working they were working in fields, for tobacco, corn, and grains. The salves that did not work in the fields made, shipbuilding, Ironworking, and other early industries. Slaves were able to buy land, and buy themselves out of freedom. Before work if they had land they were able to work on their crops.

They were able to have many rights and freedom in the late 1660s. At the same time some of the slaves were given rights and privileges. They were taking more and more slaves still from Africa. You don’t hear some of these things, when you usually hear about slavery. You usually hear that they weren’t able to have any freedom, school, and money, land or anything but they get some of that. Still slavery is really bad! They still have some good things not all bad.

Sometimes you were separated from family when you were bought. Sometimes you could be killed, whipped, or hurt. Most slaves didn’t know that slaves could have other jobs to make money, for freedom or land. Between 1790-1860 835,000 slaves were moved from Maryland to Virginia, Carolinas to Alabama, Mississippi to Louisiana and to Texas. Must of the slaves that were coming from Africa, and living in America, as slaves usually weren’t Christians. There were very few Christian slaves. Very few slaves their masters church. []