What Was The Impact Of Slavery In America

Slavery initially began during the early 1400s, lasting as late as the 1800s. Slavery began with the capture of slaves from West Africa, who were captured by rival tribes from west coast Africa, and traded for Europeans for goods; through the process of the Atlantic Slave Trade. With the difference in economy, society, and policy, the South’s and North’s relationship was poor. This then progressed, with the idea of Manifest Destiny; which, also built up bad relations with the north and south as America wanted to expand westward. As a result of different views and ideas, the civil war began. The civil war had been the starting point to the end of slavery, the starting fight (Kansas-Nebraska-Act, 2009). With many fights for freedom Jim Crow Laws still set limitations and unjust behavior towards African Americans. It wasn’t until the civil rights movement that a change became self-evident.
Slavery officially ended in 1865 (Slavery in America, 2009), due to the thirteenth amendment, which states: ’’ Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, nor any place subject to their jurisdiction.’’ African Americans also gained equal rights due to the fourteenth amendment, which was followed by the right to vote as a result of the fifteenth amendment (Slavery in America,