Slavery in the USA

Hello everybody! J Last time i informed you guys what immigrants was, did, how they got in to the USA and why. Well this time I’m going to talk about slavery! Yeah, it’s terrible. But why did the Americans do it?

The slavery started in the USA when 20 black people were sold in the English colonies. They were in fact just servants on a contract but slavery came gradually.

This is a picture of the triangle slave trade that started in the 1600^th century. America sent sugar, tobacco and cotton to Europe. And then Europe sent textiles, rum and manufactured goods to Africa. And last but not least Africa sent the slaves to America. The number of slaves that was shipped to America is a little uncertain, but it’s around 10-15 millions.

The slaves where bought to work for the tobacco and cotton plantations. They didn’t get paid and often had long and hard work days. The slavers lived in small shacks and they got food from their “owners”. If the slaves didn’t do a got enough job or the owners saw they do something wrong, they got whipped. But there were nicer owners to that believed if the people were happy they would work hard. Only the big and strong people were allowed to have children so they would grow up to be big and strong and work hard too. The slaves often survived the days on the plantation by singing, and have fellowship to each other.

Abraham Lincoln became president in 1860 and 3 years later when he pronounced the emancipation proclamation, that was promising the slaves to walk free. And after the civil war it was no more slaves to see on the tobacco and cotton plantation.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_trade
• https://snl.no/slaveri#menuitem1
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
• http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaveri_i_USA#1850-.C3.A5rene_til_borgerkrigen