DBQ slavery

Since the discover of the New-Word by Christopher Columbus in 1492, Europeans settlers saw these new population as a good deal to grow up the European economy by creating a modern era of slavery which took place from the 15th to the 19th century in America. The USA was able to increase its own economy and control the world due to the enslavement of a population. However, this system which helps mainly southern states such as Texas, or Virginia, to grow the agricultural economy and concurrence the North was based on an unequal practice that denied an all population their freedom, liberty and basic human rights. The essay will be devised in 5 different parts telling about slavery, slave auctions, differences between the North and South slavery, the slave's conditions life and finally the way to escape enslavement to access to their human rights, in order to assess if slavery in the USA denied people their basic human rights. Slavery is a social designation for people owning another, giving him a job and housing. This practice exists everywhere since the Greco-Roman time, when prisoners of war became the property of captors to be house servants. There are so many ways to become a slave such as being a warfare prisoner, a need to work cheaper, being a slave's child or if you provoked some crimes or murders. However, during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the aim of slavery was to grow up the American economy thanks to forced labor. In order to create it, slave's traffickers used to practice the "Triangular trade", also called the "Atlantic trade". Thirty to sixty million African men, women and children had to leave Africa to go to America (United States, or Brazil) using the "middle passage" in order to be sold and enslaved. The journey lasted between four and eight weeks, slaves were gathered in the bottom of the boat, suffering of bad travel conditions, so the death rate in boats was about 1/3 to ¼ (often about 10% to 20%) for slaves but also the crew. Then, when they arrived in America, some of them went to Brazil or in the Caribbean in order to work in sugar plantations; the others went to the USA to work in large farms and plantations and cultivated rice, tobacco, but mainly cotton. This experience was devastating, and for most of black people, they had to endure physical and psychological degradations. When they arrived in America, African slaves were washed, and their skin was cover by animal fat or oil to look healthier. Moreover, sometimes they were branded to be recognizing as a slave. Then, they were sold in slave's auction or market. When a slave's auction would happen in the town, posters were published in order to advertising slave owners. It existed two different slave auctions: the first, called the "May the highest bidder wins" was to give the higher amount of money for the slave the master wanted. Then, the second way to own a slave was called the "grab and go". It consists of having a ticket, and when a drum began to play, the slave owner had to run and grab the slaves he wanted, and just show the ticket to the slave trader. Just before the bidding began, masters could inspect slaves such as opening their mouth, watching their teeth, checking their body or asking them humiliated questions about t...