Why Africans !?

The first slave owners were not Europeans but several native American tribes including the Klamath, Pawnee, Yurok, Creek, Mandan and Comance all of them had small numbers of slaves. However white European Americans were the ones to create the institution of slavery that we are all familiar with.  People from northern states profited from the slave trade by shipping the African American to the Americas as slaves. This is were it all started and the history of slavery basically began. By 1860, there were about four million slaves in the country. We ask ourselves why Africans out of all people. Well Europeans began enslaving Africans in the 1400’s.  African slaves and European indentured servants lived similar lives however the servants were able to get their freedom. African Americans were forced into a life of servitude. Slaves began loosing their rights once they became property. Laws gave masters power over many slaves, which included the right to kill and mistreat them. White slave owners began to think that they were superior than the blacks. This increased the gap between slaves and freedom. The American Civil War was fought, over slavery. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all the slaves. The North won in 1865, and it brought an end of slavery in the United States. 

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