U.S. Work and Labor Before the End of Reconstruction

U.S. Work and Labor before the End of Reconstruction
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U.S. Work and Labor before the End of Reconstruction
Slaves are mostly from the economically weaker societies that are outweighed by other developed societies. Slave labor has been utilized to build almost any economically stable country today. According to Du Bois, (2017), slave trade to survive the source of the slave must be highly populated to enable the selling of slaves to continue. Formalized slave labor was adopted in most parts of the world such as Asia, Europe, and America in the early 1400s. The market and demand for slaves increased every day due to industrialization that these continents were undergoing.
Different forms of slavery were practiced in the formalized slave labor period in North America and other parts of the world. One is the Chattel slavery where the slave was a property of the owner or the master. In that case, the owners were at liberty to sell or retain the slaves at their own will. The slaves had no right whatsoever and their fate was fully in the hands of their masters. Another form of slavery was the domestic slavery where the slaves would work in the masters’ houses. They had some few rights which have only been in the best interest of their masters and the rights were to be dictated by the masters. Debt slavery was another form of slavery where the slaves were used as securities for debts. This would assure the creditor of the repayment of the debt by taking the debtors’ slaves. These slaves were fully controlled by the creditor until the debt was paid. Military slavery was another common form of slavery, especially for Africans. Because of their physical strength of the Africans, the developed countries used them for military operations. This was also a strategy to protect their own people against the loss of life that result from war. Therefore, the slaves were sacrificed on their behalf. Slaves from Africa were collected from almost every region of the continent. North America and Europe are the largest importers of trade to provide the liquid labor that was used in the highly developed industries of different kinds.
The formalization of slave labor and trade in North America started in the early 1400s when the demand for cheap labor increased due to the rapid growth of their economy. At first, the slaves were chosen randomly from the Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans. However, with time the slavery of Europeans and the Native Americans gradually decreased, leaving Africans as the only available labor providers (Snyder, 2015). The decline of Europeans and Native Americans as slaves and the resulting rise in African slaves was influenced by some of the outlined factors.
The powerful immune system of Africans to old-world diseases
Unlike the Europeans and the Native Americans, the Africans had a strong immune system that often prevented them from being killed by old world diseases like smallpox and malaria when they got infected. Their counterparts (Europeans and Native Americans) had a weak immune system which made them prone to the diseases during the early days (Williams, 2014). Since the number of slaves that one master had determined the amount of profit that they would ...