The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-09-20
SLAVERY IN AMERICA.
BY Richard NJ. Milburn.
INTRODUCTION.


10 the negro and enervang, and regions unhealthy
10 the whites and where they did not care TO work all
fered TO draw slavery TO America.
was planted first in the Spanish colonies of the West
Indies but it spread the main land settled
along the coast from jamestown both North and South
g far as the United States concerned the experimental
stage was the Seventeenth Century and principally in
MARYLAND and Virginia.
Dutch traders when they brought their human freight
to jamestown we're merely trying to open up field
II commerce The planters, who bought this cOmmod-
its did it probably without feeling of certainty to the
ultimate success of slavery They probably bought them
as an experiment only.
and superstiOus 1t problem whether they could
ever make them into abOrers that would be worth their
maintenance. They had the partial success of the Span
Eh West Indies before them, but this was uncertain
guide as the conditions entirely different Two
terial differences may be noted:
l. The Spaniards by their harsh usage had destroyed
the original population that they had nothing to fear
from the Indians or of their ever joining in an insur
ractiOn with the Indians.
2 The Spaniards viewed the negro and worked him col
Iectiyelv and not individually He was driven to the
fields and back again to the barracks. He always
machine with the Spanard; the problem to get as
much work possible out Of him before ne out
and he incapactaed whether it would be finan
cal investment to him. The idea of treating
him humanity as his horsesan dogs were treated even
never entered his mind The Virginian had different
ea and different purpose in making slave out Oh the
negro His idea was more that of the English country
gentleman He expected to live his estate himself,
with his negroes around him, to know each OF them per-
0,ason demanded it, swear at them.
Thus will be seen that before slavery be pro
unced success in the English colonies many dlcultles
must be overcome Among these may be enumerated the
following:
l. The Indian must be driven far enough away that re
and the negro would not be combined danger;
The white population must be dense enough TO resist
any attempt of the negro to strike for freedom.
g. White servitude must cease. Free labor and slave
labor could not exist side by side AT this time tnefe was
large number of indented white servants IN al te and
MES There was struggle between the two systems anu
the negro being filter TO be slave than was the "'e
remained master of the field
CHAPTER l.
SLAVERY IN THE COLONIES EUROPEAN IDEAAs TO SLAv-
The idea held in Western Europe at the beginning OF
the Seventeenth century that was inconsistent with
Christian duty for Christians to hold Christians as slaves
But this charity did not extend to heathens and nldes
The same system of morality which held the possession OF
unbeievers as lawful spoiS of war; delivered over ther
bodies also to the condition of servtude lhey hed Ihe
doctrine that the earth belonged TO Christians ana thal
christians had no right property even their own
bodies Sir John Hawkins probably voiced the sentiment
Of the Christian world when in reply to semlremoh-
STRANGE from Queen Elizabeth to his traffc IN human
Oes he declared in substance that slavery was not only
great boon TO the whites but positive benefit to the
negroes themselves for the following reasons:
The condition of slaves in the colonies were TAR less
depoable than was the condition OF the free man In Al
nca.'
positive service and lasting benefit was conferred
on the negro by making Christian out OF hlms -
FIRST ENCI isHMAN In AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. .The un-
envabe distinction of being the first Englishman to
engage in the traffic of negro slaves with America pro-
baby belongs to Sir John Hawkins There had been ne
gro slaves brought to this country long before tnat ana
the Spanards had no CONJUNCTION in reducing the Indians
to slavery although at first they met with some oppos-
ton from Queen Isabella Columbus was first to make
slaves out of the Indians because ne had the rst oppo
uny. The Indians of North America dld not make sat
actoy slaves as they were lazy and too dangerous
to their masters but those Of the West Indies were far
more ractable and little more willing to work Inelf
IN the minest
L was in 1861 that John Hawkins in his third voyage
with Francis Drake, of his captains, took hve nun