Colonial Slavery in the Western Hemisphere prior to 1793 Thomas Paine.

Colonial Slavery started back in 1619 when a Dutch ship had brought African Americans to Jamestown, Virginia to work on tobacco plantations. At this time they, also like poor Englishmen, were only considered indentured servants who would be released after they have paid off their debt to their owner. As the population in the Americas grew over time, so did the size and amount of plantations that they had. The owners could not work the plantations …

…free, while in the south they kept strict laws of slavery. This then resulted in the American Revolution where the blacks sided with whichever side guaranteed freedom. After the Revolution, most of the slavery was eliminated. Works Cited: http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/history/series/hw/slavery/slaveryintro.htm http://www.africanaonline.com/slavery_timeline.htm http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1619.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0131_030203_jubilee2.html http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/