The Origins Of Slavery

If we take a step back and look back to pre-civil war times, we can see that slavery didn’t necessarily start as a race-based system in America. It’s rooted in the idea of indentured servitude, the idea that if a wealthy land owner in the states helps to pay for you to travel to live in the states that to pay them back you work for them for a set number of years. It turned more into a race thing when the white landowners realized that it was cheaper to buy people of color and force them to work rather than transporting white persons from the UK. With this, the rise of slavery in Virginia came into implementation after 3 indentured servants tried to run away, 2 white, and 1 black. Those who were white got a lesser sentence of working a few more years, while the person of color was told to spend the rest of his life working for his “boss” with no compensation.