Slaves

Between 1607 and 1775, slavery in the southern colonies grew resulting from the necessity of profit. Africa was one of the richest countries  because of all of the gold they had. Around this time signs of racism became obvious as the English population began to refer to the African community as the "Dark Country". In January 1808 a law was passed that would allow slavery to take effect. The Atlantic slave trade was one of the multiple cargoes of slaves to exist, slaves would be packed tightly in ships, the slaves where not allowed to stand up and had to remain in their places through the long weeks on  urine, blood and vomit. The slaves then went on to trade, where they where traded for goods and sold by there size, if the slave was weak and slim the price was low, if the slave was strong and in good  condition, the prize was high. Those who conducted the packaging of slaves onto boats experimented  with the forms of loading, there was tight packaging and loose packaging. Tight packaging would compress all the slaves into a cluster phobic order and would provide little to no oxygen and most of the time,  slaves would have to breath in all the body fluids that surrounded them. At the end of this particular transportation  not many of the slaves made it most would die during this part of their journey. The loose packaging would allow more breathing space but still suffered all the grotesque consequence, although the chances of making it alive where much higher. Slaves had to endure this journey for 3 weeks the least and 12 weeks the maximum. The order of slaves was so high  almost like they where a new product on stock that by 1741 entire communities had disappeared. Eventually France and England abolished slavery but that did not happen until 1819, and the last ship to land onto American territory was in 1859 which by then was illegal.