How did Slavery start?

Question

... They say that George washington started it but sometimes I hear other wise...
Does anybody know?

Answer 1

No, no one knows, because slavery is far older than the United States. If you really study the history of the world, you will find few, if any, countries that have never had slavery. There were slaves in Europe in the Middle Ages, and slaves in the Middle East before the time of Christ. Egypt had slaves millenia ago. Most Pacific Island tribes enslaved other tribes. Native Americans enslaved each other. All of this is documented.

It is very sad that the slave trade and colonialism fit together so well that slavery in the U.S. lasted longer than reasonable people thought it should have. Still, at least we abolished it. In places like the Sudan and some other African countries, minority people are still being enslaved today.

Answer 2

glitter - in America the first slaves were Native Americans. Some Europeans came to America as 'indentured servants' for periods of 3-7 years, but often ran away before their service period was finished, so then Americans tried to use Indians. Indians also ran away.

The first African slaves were brought to America in 1619 (long before George Washington was born). By the time of the American revolution in 1776, slavery was already big business in America. In fact, slavery was a big issue in pre-revolutionary America - to keep slaves or free them.

If you want to know more, please read "Slavery and the Making of America" by James Horton and Lois Horton or rent the DVD by the same name.

Answer 3

Slavery????!!!!!! Slavery began initially in Europe the place white human beings invaded Africa and kidnapped Africans to do their farm artwork. while the pilgrims got here visiting to North u . s ., they tried to capture the community human beings for slaves, however the community human beings saved demise of the illnesses that the pilgrims introduced over, so as that they used African human beings. Thats how slavery began in Colonial u . s .. The Civil conflict became a conflict that each and everyone started in 1861 and led to 1865. Its significant purpose became to not abolish slavery yet to maintain the Union mutually. in an prolonged time interior the conflict, Lincoln desperate that in the time of addition they must combat for the liberation of slaves. The Civil conflict became began while 11 states of the Union secceded from the Union. This became an act of hostility in direction of the Union. Slavery ended it slow after the Civil conflict and slavery became a organic element from the time of the colonies. Even George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had slaves

Answer 4

IF YOU ARE REFERRING TO SLAVERY IN THE US, IT BEGAN IN JAMESTOWN, VA.Slavery in the United States
Jenny B. Wahl, Carleton College

Slavery is fundamentally an economic phenomenon. Throughout history, slavery has existed where it has been economically worthwhile to those in power. The principal example in modern times is the U.S. South. Nearly 4 million slaves with a market value of close to $4 billion lived in the U.S. just before the Civil War. Masters enjoyed rates of return on slaves comparable to those on other assets; cotton consumers, insurance companies, and industrial enterprises benefited from slavery as well. Such valuable property required rules to protect it, and the institutional practices surrounding slavery display a sophistication that rivals modern-day law and business.
THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY IN THE U.S.

Not long after Columbus set sail for the New World, the French and Spanish brought slaves with them on various expeditions. Slaves accompanied Ponce de Leon to Florida in 1513, for instance. But a far greater proportion of slaves arrived in chains in crowded, sweltering cargo holds. The first dark-skinned slaves in what was to become British North America arrived in Virginia -- perhaps stopping first in Spanish lands -- in 1619 aboard a Dutch vessel. From 1500 to 1900, approximately 12 million Africans were forced from their homes to go westward, with about 10 million of them completing the journey. Yet very few ended up in the British colonies and young American republic. By 1808, when the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the U.S. officially ended, only about 6 percent of African slaves landing in the New World had come to North America.
Slavery in the North

Colonial slavery had a slow start, particularly in the North. The proportion there never got much above 5 percent of the total population. Scholars have speculated as to why, without coming to a definite conclusion. Some surmise that indentured servants were fundamentally better suited to the Northern climate, crops, and tasks at hand; some claim that anti-slavery sentiment provided the explanation. At the time of the American Revolution, fewer than 10 percent of the half million slaves in the thirteen colonies resided in the North, working primarily in agriculture. New York had the greatest number, with just over 20,000. New Jersey had close to 12,000 slaves. Vermont was the first Northern region to abolish slavery when it became an independent republic in 1777. Most of the original Northern colonies implemented a process of gradual emancipation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, requiring the children of slave mothers to remain in servitude for a set period, typically 28 years. Other regions above the Mason-Dixon line ended slavery upon statehood early in the nineteenth century -- Ohio in 1803 and Indiana in 1816, for instance.

TABLE 1
Population of the Original Thirteen Colonies, selected years by type

1750


1750





1790


1790





1790


1810





1810


1810


1860





1860


1860

State

White


Black





White


Free





Slave


White





Free


Slave


White





Free


Slave















Nonwhite














Nonwhite











Nonwhite






108,270


3,010





232,236


2,7

Answer 5

The first record of African slavery in Colonial America occurred in 1619. A Dutch ship, its name unrecorded by those present, had captured 20 enslaved Africans in a battle with a Spanish ship bound for the Caribbean. The Dutch ship had been damaged first by the battle and then more severely in a great storm during the late summer when it came ashore at Jamestown. Though the colony was in the middle of a period later known as "The Great Migration" (1618-1623), during which its population grew from 450 to 4,000 residents, extremely high mortality rates from disease, malnutrition, and war with Indians kept the population of able-bodied laborers low [1]. The Dutch ship being in severe need of repairs and supplies and the colonists being in need of able-bodied workers, the human cargo was traded for food and services.

In addition to African slaves, poor Europeans were brought over in substantial numbers as indentured servants, particularly in the British Thirteen Colonies.[9] The white citizens of Jamestown, who had themselves arrived from Britain, decided to treat the first Africans in Virginia as indentured servants. As with European indentured servants, the Africans were freed after a stated period and given the use of land and supplies by their former masters, and at least one, Anthony Johnson, eventually became a landowner on the Eastern Shore and a slave-owner himself.

Answer 6

That's bs. Slavery is thousands of years old. It's mentioned in the Old Testament. It was used by ancient civilizations as far back a sumer, and maybe beyond.. I suspect a caveman was kicked out of his clan or captured by a rival clan, and put to work.

Answer 7

Slavery has been practised for thousands of years.

Conquered people were enslaved, before slaves were bought and sold

Answer 8

Slavery has been an institution since the beginning of recorded history.

That is to say, nobody knows.

Answer 9

If you mean from the beginning-Someone though himself better than someone else and had the power to demean him.
If you mean in the USA-It was a carryover from England.

Answer 10

The persians had the biggest slave army in the world over
2000 years ago.