How does slavery affect people today?

Answer 1

Towards the end of the 14th century, Europeans would take people from Africa against their will. In the beginning they were mainly used as servants, for the rich people. The Europeans said they did this to give the Africans a chance to become Christians. Approximately 15 million Africans were taken to the Americas between 1540 and 1850. To make more money slave merchants carried as many slaves as possible on their ships.

By the 17th century Europeans began to build settlements in the Americas. Crops grown on these plantations like tobacco, rice, sugar cane and cotton was difficult and tiresome. That is why planters began to purchase slaves. In the beginning they came from the West Indies but by the end of 18th century they came straight from Africa. That is when slave-markets began in Philadelphia, Richmond, Charleston and New Orleans.

In the mid-1800s it was estimated that about 88 % of America's slave-owners owned twenty slaves or less. Large landowners would usually own over 100 slaves. They relied mainly on overseers to run their plantations. These overseers were under an extreme amount of pressure to make the most money possible for the plantation owners. The overseers did this by threatening the slaves into working harder and faster for longer periods of time. Slaves worked from sunrise to sunset sometimes working eighteen hour a day.

since we killed all the slave workers we pwned majorly

Answer 2

Slavery affects people in many ways; such as sleep, how can you go sleep knowing people out in the world have to work as slaves, so that their families have money to just about survive