Slavery+Comes+to+America

** The Early Beginnings of Slavery in America **
===** In the year 1562 an English navigator went into Africa in search of slaves for the West Indies. Slaves were being chartered out of their country into other countries. In 1619 slavery was started in America when a Dutch trader sold twenty black slaves in Jamestown. **=== ===** After that, slaves working on farms and plantations started to become more frequent. In 1658 the first peoples opposing slavery were arrested. In 1662 the Virginia Assembly passed a law that children should be held, bond or free, "according to the condition of the mother." This meant that if a child was born to a black mother he or she would work as a slave. **=== ===** Some of the slaves were forced to be brought into Christianity and be Baptized. The question was brought up, "Is it lawful to hold Christians or not and them not to be freed. There was also a point in history that was called the Middle Passage. The reason it was called the Middle Passage because it was the middle event that happened in three events. The Middle Passage is the passage in which slaves came to America. **===

** People traded and owned slaves and the slaves did not rebel because they were afraid of the punishment that would follow. **
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