Today, people
know America as the land of the free. Citizens of the United States
have the ability to choose what they want to do, a rare things seen
in few other countries. In the Declaration of Independence, the
Founding Fathers outlined how All men are created equal. However,
America has not always acted like a free country. Hundreds of years
ago,
slaverycame to
the new nation, and spread like wildfire from there. With the end
of the
American
Civil Warcame the abolition of slavery, but racism would still
surround Americas community for decades to come. While slavery
originated in the United States about four hundred years ago, the
abolition of this terrible trade came slowly and still continues
today. After Columbus first landed on the Bahamas in America in
1492, people from the East began to see the benefits of the rich
land. Established in 1607, Jamestown became the first successful
settlement in the New World. Built on the profits of tobacco, large
amounts of cheap labor was needed to plant and collect the
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In 1739, the
Stono Rebellion erupted in South Carolina near the Stono River.
Slaves soon comprised the majority of South Carolinas population
due to the different factors. Twenty enslaved African Americans
first killed two storekeepers and took over a supply of guns and
ammunition. Then, the rebels gathered new recruits, burning seven
plantations and killing about twenty-five whites. However, the
local militia finally suppressed the rebellion after fighting a
battle where twenty whites and forty-four slaves were killed. After
the Stono Rebellion, the South Carolina legislature enacted
numerous strict laws that banned slaves from earning money,
assembling in groups, and learning to read. Years before the
American Civil War, the Stono Rebellion stressed the growing
tensions in colonial society between slaves and their
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