colonies or states enacted similar laws. After the slave trade officially ended, many slave owners tried to ensure that sufficient numbers of slaves were available to work their plantations. The laws and resulting court cases that involved slavery and indentured servants have had a major impact on America, its men and women alike, in both the past and the present. Through the years, the laws that the states passed became steadily more restrictive toward slaves, mulattoes, and freed Negroes. In 1850, the
Indentured Servants into Racial Slavery The beginning of the consequential series of events that eventually lead to one of the worst treatments one man can inflict on another man, was chattel slavery. Chattel slavery was when a man or woman’s dignity was completely taken from them. This was done by the taking of their original name and given a new extremely literal one like “Slave” or “Property”. They were legally owned. They could be purchased, sold, and even inherited. Forced to leave families
So, this system was passed to encourage more settlers into the colony by promising them a certain amount of acres of land. Slavery begins- The need for more labor was growing, and indentured servants were becoming too expensive. So slavery had small beginnings, with some still being treated like indentured servants. Bacon’s Rebellion- Bacon was upset when he was denied a piece in the fur trade, so he and governor Berkely were not on good terms. When Bacon led an unauthorized