Slavery in the United States

Hello everyone!

It`s raining here in San Francisco this morning, so I went to the store to buy some good food when I blog. I love lazy mornings, and it has not been much of those here in the U.S, so that was really amazing. When the weather gets better I am going to visit the famous bridge, Golden Gate Bridge. Then I have to see what I’ll do after that. Whatever I do here, is it absolutely extraordinary!

But, I promised yesterday that I would write about the slavery in this post. It is absolutely terrible how they were treated, I can`t really understand it!!

One of the cases for the slavery was that they needed people to work on the plantations and farms. Slavery in America began in the early 17th Century and continued to be practiced for the next 250 years by the colonies and states. Most, including women and children, worked on plantations and production of tobacco crops and later, cotton. Men worked often as joiners, metalworkers, gun makers, coopers and sailors. From the late 18^th century were women brought in from fields and given duties as servants, nurses, dressmakers and cooks.  From around 1619 to 1865 people with African descent were slaves lawfully. Slaves had to work without salary; the only thing they got was food so they could work next day. Therefore the economy in the United States increased.

First they had to come over to the United States with ships that sailed across the Atlantic. The trip took about two months. The trip was really, really hard – they were held in the dark under deck and to identify the slaves they burned marks into their skin. A lot of people died, of different reasons. Just 15 million of 35-40 million slaves survived the trip over the Atlantic, so you can imagine how hard the trip was.

African people on our way to the United States from Africa.

After a long trip, the prisoners were sold as slaves to different plantations. And many times parents and children got separated, and maybe they never would see each other again. So they were often alone when they came to the plantation. They worked up to 18 hours a day, and sometimes longer. After a long day with hard work, many slaves don`t have a bed to sleep in when they was finished. If the slaves don`t do what the owners said they hurt them by beating, whipping, and burning them. If they do something really bad, for example if they tried to escape, they cut of their limbs or killed them.

                       

In 1861 the American civil war started, and the slavery finally stopped. President Lincoln spoken out against the slavery, about how bad and wrong it was. He presented the Preliminart Emancipation Proclamation. The Union won the Civil war in 1865 and finally the slavery was over!! 

Luckily we live in a better time today. And although this is really exiting am I of course really happy that I not lived at that time.

Now the sun begins to arrive, so I have to go! It`s just some few days again here in the amazing San Francisco, and they should be enjoyed!!! Talk to you later.

Guro