Beginning in 1492, after Christopher Columbus sailed the sea and found that the new world and the old world could easily be met by ship, three different countries, including South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and North America, all participated in trade route amongst each other which is known as the Columbian Exchange. These countries traded each’s most popular item that was grown from their own land, for example, South America exchanged goods like peaches, sheep, cattle, rice and sugarcane to North America in order for North America to give their own goods such as, tobacco, tomatoes, potatoes and maize to Europe. Therefore, Europe would give their goods to South America which made an enormous triangle of exchanged goods. Europe’s goods included …show more content…
Eventually, over time these indentured servants turned into slaves, which we all have learned about through history. The time line from indentured servants to slaves is quite compelling and I’ll show you how. In 1619, the very first African-Americans show their faces in Virginia. Most of them were indentured servants, trying to prove their worthiness in the eyes of the white land owners. After whites discover how much their field hands accomplish, they begin to transport blacks from Africa to the West Indies. In the 1660s, slavery becomes even more appealing and soon enough, slave codes are put into act. These were laws passed as a model for other colonies on how slaves were to be a white man’s personal property, initially taking away black’s rights. It protected the institution of slavery. Beginning in the 1670s, the African-American population in North America was growing outrageously large. Enslaved women usually had an average of more than four children and because of this; the Chesapeake region was one of the first regions to raise a large generation directly into