What Was The Impact Of Underground Railroad In American History

The Impact of the Underground Railroad in American History To begin, when the topic of American history is brought up, people do not tend to bring up slavery and how it has impacted our country by once splitting it into two. Instead they bring up how our country gives independence and freedom to its citizens. This was not always the case though in 1619 the first slaves were brought to Virginia by the Dutch to help boost production of tobacco and other important crops. These African American people were kidnapped and made to join the impoverished European people of the colony in working for wealthy colonists. The agreement when slavery first began was that if you worked for seven years you would gain freedom along with your own plot of land.
A majority of the slaves wanted to have a taste of freedom and be able to live and work wherever they wanted and also be paid. There was a lot of barbarism that followed slavery, slave owners were required to beat their slaves so that they were petrified and would learn to not rebel against their owners. But at the same time, there were many people in the United States who were not for slavery and this ended up splitting our country into two at one point in time. Slavery began a mass movement of a group of people named abolitionist who would stand up against slave owners and try to show the country how unethical slavery was. These abolitionists would help assist the slaves to freedom but this would enrage slave owners. This is what led to the spilt of our country into North and South; even parts of our government were split due to their beliefs. The majority of North believed that slavery was not correct while a majority of the South believed that slavery was correct and would improve the country. This lead to the Underground Railroad that was used by the abolitionist to facilitate multiple slaves in their escape northward. In brief, countries do not always have history that they are proud of but in the end it has helped enhance the country by
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