What was slavery in America for blacks? When an individual hears or reads this question, what goes through this persons’ mind? For many, like myself, they immediately think of bad conditions, beatings, ripping people from their homeland and racism. Three major questions come to mind when I think of slavery in America, why did it exist? What was slavery like? And lastly, what did it do to America? Through my personal readings I have come to understand these three questions and the vast answers that follow them.
Why did Slavery Exist in the New World? To say that slavery existed solely because of racism is far beyond the real reasoning. Through my readings, The Peculiar Institution and The African American Odyssey, I have come to the