What happened? Did they all of a sudden wake up one day and decided to make slaves of all the Africans that were promised to be free after serving a few years as servants? I'm a little fussy but I think they started to put down more and more restrictions (laws) on them until oneday they decided to make them slave. If thats so then what were the laws that started it all. What were their reasoning? What was each law and date that they were approved?
2006-06-14 13:09:41 · 1 answers · asked by Someone 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Slavery was carried over as a common institution from the Roman era (and earlier, to the very beginning of human history). Since Britain inherited a great deal of Roman legal and social infrastructure, America gained it by default as a British colony.
2006-06-14 13:14:18 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋