One Deprived Of Freedom!

While researching on slavery I came across a many known facts. How long slavery was around, when it started, until the end. Slavery was not only in the South but also across the world. Slavery is the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution. To keep hostage. Slavery deprives everyone from their abilities they once had.


Slavery has appeared throughout history in many forms and many places. Slaves have served in capacities as diverse as concubines, warriors, servants, craft workers, and tutors. In the Americas, however, slavery emerged as a system of forced labor designed for the production of staple crops. Depending on location, these crops included sugar, tobacco, coffee, and cotton; in the southern United States, by far the most important staples were tobacco and cotton.

Slavery played a central role in the history of the United States. It existed in all the English mainland colonies and came to dominate agricultural production in the states from Maryland south. Eight of the first 12 presidents of the United States were slave owners. Debate over slavery increasingly dominated American politics, leading eventually to the American Civil War, which finally brought slavery to an end. After emancipation, overcoming slavery's legacy remained a crucial issue in American history, from Reconstruction following the war, to the civil rights movement a century later.

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Finally, after many devastating years of hard work, rapid deaths, pain, and torture it all came to an end. Allowing the slaves who survived slavery to be free. To go back home and live the life that was once their own. Their freedom was Deprived, and now giving back to them. Giving a new life. Though the slaves were set free, there will still be scares of memories in their mind and heart. Slavery became apart of them. It became them.






~ The End of Slavery In America ~

Freed slaves under Union Army guard leaving their plantations.

Harper's Weekly February 21, 1863

Ironically, although Southern politicians supported secession in order to preserve slavery, their action led instead to the end of slavery. As the war dragged on, Northern war aims graduallyshifted from preserving the Union to abolishing slavery and remaking the Union.

This goal, which received symbolic recognition with the Emancipation Proclamation that President Lincoln issued on January 1, 1863, became reality with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, passed by Congress in January and ratified by the states in December 1865.

Although slavery was ended, it was followed by an intense struggle during Reconstruction over the status of the newly freed slaves. In subsequent decades, black Americans continued to struggle against poverty, racism, and segregation, as they sought to overcome the bitter legacy of slavery.

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* I found pictures of slavery at www.google.com/images