SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATE

Slavery means a person owned by master in that century were two different types of slave: the domestic slave – who generally worked outside haying – and productive slaves – who were employed to produce cotton and coal from the plantations and mines. Slaves were mostly status symbols for the rich and powerful, and in most slave societies, Atlanta, Georgia being one, slaves made up around twenty to thirty per cent of the population. During the halcyon days of the cotton era, the population of slaves in America reached forty per cent.. The slave was a form of slave labor which existed as a legal institution in North America for more than a century before the founding of the United States in 1776. Almost those people came from in West-Africa. In Virgin adquired the first african in 1619. The slave labor was in demand in the areas where there was good-quality soil and climate for large plantations of high-value cash crops with labor-intensive cultivation such as  rice,cotton, tabacco, sugar and coffe.From the century 16th to 19th an estimated 12 million Africans were shipped as slaves to the America.