The origins of American slavery
Slavery, united states, history
United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Slavery
History
Though the English did not begin their colonization of the New World with the intention of enslaving anyone, by the end of the seventeenth century chattel slavery existed in each of England’s American colonies. Why? And why did the English enslave West Africans rather than native Americans or Europe…
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