The Founding Fathers sought to claim their independence through the ideals such as possessing the right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, the concept that all men are created equal, and that no human being has the freedom to hold power over another individual. However, these ideals were not applied to African Americans because they were not treated as citizens of the colonies due to the fact that they were slaves who did not have freedom, this also meant that they were not considered equals to the white individuals in the colonies, and they were still under the power of the slave ...

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The Atlantic Slave Trade benefited the Europeans, the slave traders, and the American colonists. ... Machines were invented to speed up production causing large-scale industries to form, which in turn developed steam and water power. ... By 1763, there were 170,000 slaves, about half of the population. ... Eric Williams in Capitalism and Slavery gives many examples of the slave buyers making double their money in profits on the sales of slaves. ... Other supporting but crucial factors include the benefit in transferring Africa's technological skills and expertise to New World industries, ...

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From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated Congress had no right to prohibit the expansion of slavery to federal territories, and this would radicalize Lincoln's idea of a southern conspiracy that threatened the ideas of the Founding Fathers, which gave him a distinct moral conviction and tone to his political argument. ... By this rule, you are to be slav...

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The oppression for slaves reached its peak with the Runaway Slave Act of 1850. ... No longer would a slave have to be brought before a court to process crimes, the master had ultimate power. ... The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 became the model of slave codes for other colonies. ... The New York City Slave Rebellion of 1712 occurred after several slaves had a meeting in a tavern. ... Slaves committing or engaging in conspiracy would be executed. ...

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