Because there was a labor shortage. Anybody who could get to America had all the land they could possibly want for very low cost, but they could get no one to help them work it. New arrivals could get their own land, so , who would want to be someone else's field hand? There was a partial solution in indentured servants. These were poor people recruited in England to go to the colonies. They did not have the money to pay their way, so someone would pay their passage, in return for which they had to work for that person, usually for seven years. But after the seven years they were free to go their own way and acquire their own land.
So, in 1619 when a Dutch ship captain arrived off Jamestown with a cargo of African slaves he had been unable to sell elsewhere and proposed to sell them to the Virginians, it seemed to some like a good idea. Originally these Africans were treated just like the other indentured servants, and freed after seven years. Within a generation or two though the Virginia legislature, and those of other states, had changed laws so that white indentured servants were still freed after seven years but Africans became perpetual servants, never to be freed.
Because coloured people were thought of as 'savages' or animals in the U.S, and people wanted desperately to live in luxury, so they made them their slaves.
It was first started when Christopher colombus brought slaves over from Indonesia to help with the lack of manpower in the American Colonies such as Jamestown.
because they hated black people
in the early 1700s
Slavery was widely practiced in the Roman Empire, and medieval people inherited the practice from them.
Maryland was the first US state to support slavery.
After the abolition (end) of slavery
The civil war was fought over states rights, it wasnt until the 1960s that jews changed the history books to make it out like the civil war was over slavery.
1776. Slavery was also extant in the colonies before the US existed.
South Carolina
Where slavery begin
Slavery occurred over a 100+ years even before the founding of the United States.
President Lincoln did begin to formulate a fair way to end slavery in the United States in 1862.
http://Islam.about.com/od/history/a/afammuslims.htm Via slavery of Muslim African slaves!
Slavery stated in Jamestown in 1620.
Slavery existed in the Americas prior to the formation of the United States in 1787. When the US Constitution was accepted, slavery was already there. The first African slaves were brought to the Jamestown colony in the 17th Century.
when you died
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1900s
Slavery began in Virginia in 1619 when the first African slaves arrived in Jamestown to help with the production of tobacco. A Dutch ship carried 20 slaved over the Pacific.