Was Slavery Justified

Slavery has been around ever since the early 1600s in America. The very first slaves were shipped to the North American colony to help with plantation. Slavery was entrenched in the southern colonies because of the demand of workers for cultivating crops and it was justified by plantation owners through religion, however many African Americans gained their freedom by rebelling. Although slavery had already existed in America, it became deeply rooted in the southern economy, politics, and culture mainly due to the creation of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney. The cotton gin is a device that fastened the pace of separating the cotton fibers and seeds. This meant that cotton was produced more quickly and could also be sold for profit. Cotton is
After the invention of the cotton gin when slavery became entrenched in the southern colonies, a wave of antislavery reform grew in the early 1800s. A few slaves were able to buy their freedom from their owners and many became free from manumission. Manumission is when slave owners freed their slaves, however it depended on each slave owner when and how they would let go of their slave. For example, slave owners could free their slaves if they worked as many years as they wanted them to or the slaves were no longer useful to them. Although some slave owners freed their slaves on their own, others did not. This lead to many rebellions and uprisings in plantations. Continued rebellions led to the Missouri Compromise which divided states into “free” and “slaved” states. Abraham Lincoln helped African Americans gain freedom by declaring the Emancipation Proclamation. Despite the whites discouraging African American culture, the African Americans tried to maintain their identity by creating a new culture called the Creole. The culture was a mixture of the different beliefs between the African American ethnic groups. This is how the Africans Americans maintained their identity and gained their freedom from