What Impact Did Slavery Have On African American Society

Slavery has been the worst of the worst issues that our history has ever seen or heard of and now a days most people still believe African Americans shouldn’t have rights. Throughout history slavery was a tremendous problem in our society because many people believed it was normal. They were taking advantage of the African Americans and using them to do their house chores, taking care of their children and overall making the slaves do the impossible. They were treated very poorly and they were expected to work in unnecessary heat conditions. Some were expected to work long hours and weren’t getting the property nutrition and sleep to recover from working those long hours. For African Americans they didn’t have any rights, barely saw their own
In 1777, many of the black communities became leaders and created their own independent churches and schools and they were called the “Free Black Communities”. Sooner or later the Declaration of Independence came about and it changed the meaning of American freedom. “The Declaration’s enduring impact came not from the complaints against George III but from Jefferson’s preamble, especially the second paragraph, which begins, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
200). In the 1800s, the Cotton Kingdom was the significant effect of our growth of slavery. Cotton was such a profit for the planters it created such a benefit for them for not only land but in slave labor. After cotton became such a huge profit many states became slave holders. “After Congress prohibited the Atlantic slave trade in 1808- the earliest date allowed by the Constitution – a massive trade in slaves developed within the United States, supply the labor force required by the new Cotton Kingdom” (Foner, p. 335). Many slaves were sold solely on to work on cotton fields so their owners can make the most money having slaves work in the field for them and some were even chained together while traveling to Virginia to Louisiana. During the nineteenth century it was the absolute worse for African Americans especially men, “Despite racial inequalities, many whites of revolutionary generation had thought of African Americans as “citizens of color,” potential members of the body politic” (Foner, p. 372). During this time black males were treated very poorly denying their rights to join the military, no equal rights including voting, testify in court, or