Slavery vs. Indentured Servitude

There is a lot of research that narrates this history of slavery in America but according to (Blanck). Slavery started in America as a way of getting coworkers to support them in economics booster during the ruling by Justice William Cushing of Massachusetts in 1783, slavery was related to a property to the owner. American slavery began when they discovered that indentured servants have limited time with contracts, also they arevery expensive compared to slavery, for instance during Dutch immigration to the United States They were so talented in trading that they easily expand to Manhattan, the Islands, Long Island, much of the Hudson Valley, and now New Jersey. As the business expands, the workforce has little labor to occupy the area, while acquiring Europeans is very difficult and more expensive, Peter Stuyvesant, a Dutch director from 1647-1664, proposed the idea of filling vacant workers with people from Central Africa, who went to enslave 450 people as their private workers This is how they welcomed non-Dutch workers into the company as slaves.They prefer slavery only because they remain with them for an exceptionally long time compared to indentured servitudewhich has a limited time base on their contracts which may not renew. The British Colonies enslaved African people to expand their cash crops in Virginia and Maryland, where they specialized in growing tobacco. Tobacco became their first profitable exportin Virginia, where they grow up to sugarcane and cotton later.

 In 1400, the Portuguese is one of the European countries that enslaved people from Africa through the Atlanticto maneuver themselves easily to Africa with the supportof John’s son Prince Henry the Navigator (Rönnbäck, 2014). They found that most Africans are good in the plantation of crops, plantain, which could be abenefit unto them. Portuguese get this information to penetrate Africa and enslave so many of them such as Congo, the Canary, Cape Verde, and the Azores Islands. Because they are running out of workers to plant. After they were successful in Africa and proceed to South America to enslave some which boost their economy.

In 1492, Spain tried to overpower the Portuguese in the trading of enslaved people with the support of Ferdinand and Isabella that agreed to finance Columbus’s expedition in 1492, by supplying him with some mobiles to help him actualize the purpose by being the first to take over the Indian Ocean before Portugal. This competition creates a lot of problems between these countries. They entermany countries as a way of spreading Christianity and trading but with intention of enslaving people to boost their economy.

English colonies start theirslave trade because ofindentured servitude that have a limited contract with their owner to serve them and after the contract and all promises redeem, they will decide to stay on their own which limited the English colonies to shortages of workers. In the seventeenth century, Chesapeake adopted chattel slavery whichdescribedAfricans as property not as people because the purpose of getting them is to help them grow tobacco and nothing less. According to the cliff note (2022). Chesapeake Colony Enforcing Laws in the Early Seventeenth-Century Describing slavery would be a life-long service that would help them achieve reliable tobacco, sugar cane, and cotton plantations.

The slave is a process of capturing, moving, and selling a human being into chattel slavery most especially Black Africans brought into the new world before the nineteenth century. They are subject tolabor for them and their children’s children because they are without a contract, and they are as properties to the new world not as a people. While indentured servitude is based on the contract. Indentured servants were people who signed a contract hoping to finish the contract and get freedom at the end of their contract.

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Blanck, E. (n.d.). Tyrannicide: Forging an American law of slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts. Google Books. Retrieved May 5, 2022, from https://books.google.com/books?id=8e-wBAAAQBAJ

Rönnbäck, K. (2014, May 20). Sweet business: Quantifying the value-added in the British colonial sugar trade in the 18th century*: Revista de Historia Economica – Journal of Iberian and Latin American economic history. Cambridge Core. Retrieved May 5, 2022, from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/revista-de-historia-economica-journal-of-iberian-and-latin-american-economic-history/article/sweet-business-quantifying-the-value-added-in-the-british-colonial-sugar-trade-in-the-18th-century/9842DA9586360CF67CFB0A968BC6860F

U.S. History I. CliffsNotes. (n.d.). Retrieved May 6, 2022, from https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/history/us-history-i/seventeenth-century-colonial-settlements/chesapeake-colonies-virginia-maryland