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Slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African slaves helped build the new nation into an economic powerhouse through growing of crops such as tobacco and cotton . Slavery in what became the United States probably began with the arrival of enslaved Africans to the British colony of Jamestown Virginia in 1619. The over seas slave trade began during the 15th century when Portugal, and over time other European kingdoms, were finally able to expand overseas and reach Africa. The Portuguese first began to kidnap people from the west coast of Africa and to take those they enslaved back to Europe. Denmark was the first European country to ban slavery. In 1807 Britain declared the slave trade to be illegal. One year later the United States of America followed, Sweden in 1813, The Netherlands in 1814, France in 1815 and Spain in 1820. Slaves were punished by whipping, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, mutilation, branding, rape, and imprisonment. Punishment was often handed out for slaves misbehaving or talking back. That would be the slave owners way of demonstrating their dominance. According to Slavery was outlawed in the United States after the Civil War. This is relatively late in the century compared to British colonies, for example, such as those in the Caribbean or Canada. Cotton and slavery persisted in the confederate states in the south of the United States for longer than the northern parts of the continent, and this was one of the major differences between the two sides in the Civil war. According to , due to the economic advantages of owning labor in a vast continent of undeveloped and uncleared land that could be planted with lucrative cash crops, and the source of the slaves was Africa through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, flow of information and free trade. much of the slave trade occurred in the Americas. It is estimated that 70,000 slaves were sold to the Americas annually. The slaves were normally kidnapped from their villages and sold to slave traders. Slaves were packed in tight ships with no sunlight. They were packed in lying down and had nearly no room to move. If they were lucky, they would be stored in a space 3 feet high. The unlucky ones were packed sitting in long rows unable to move. Sometimes when the ship tilted from the sea, the slaves on the sides were crushed from all the weight of other slaves. Some captains would provide buckets for the slaves' wastes, but others didn't. There were never enough buckets for everyone and not everyone could reach the buckets since they were all shackled. During humid months, temperatures could reach the hundreds in the tiny compacted spaces. If you imagine the worst possible living conditions, it will be nothing compared to what the slaves went through. ................
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