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    Slavery grew exponentially in the American colonies between the early 1600s and the American Revolution in 1776, as the demand for workers increased due to population growth. Africans were forced into labor to meet this demand, establishing the slave trade and the origins of racism. While it is disputed whether racism emerged from the enslavement of blacks or pre-existing racial prejudice, the high labor demand and use of African slaves to fill it likely contributed to and solidified ideas of racial inequality in America over generations.

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    Slavery grew exponentially in the American colonies between the early 1600s and the American Revolution in 1776, as the demand for workers increased due to population growth. Africans were forced into labor to meet this demand, establishing the slave trade and the origins of racism. While it is disputed whether racism emerged from the enslavement of blacks or pre-existing racial prejudice, the high labor demand and use of African slaves to fill it likely contributed to and solidified ideas of racial inequality in America over generations.

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    American History P.5


    September 19, 2009

    Racism and Slavery

    Between when the first blacks arrived in the American colonies in the early 1600s, and
    the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1776, the business of slavery in the New World grew
    exponentially, paving the way for new perceptions about black people. As the demand for more
    workers steadily increased during the seventeenth century in the New World due to population
    rise, forced labor gained appeal, and this labor came from the Africans. Consequentially, the
    slave trade was born and so it seemed, the origins of racism in the Colonies. It has been widely
    disputed today whether it was this forced enslavement of blacks that led to discrimination against
    them, or that there was already racial prejudice by the English before their resort to African
    slavery. But the answer is not fully either of these, it is a collaboration of the two. The high
    demand for labor created a vacuum which the African slaves could fill, leading to ideas-whether
    pre-existing or not- about racial inequality, which were then passed down to later generations,
    solidifying racism in America.

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