Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century

When taught about slavery for the first time, I was not fully informed with all the facts and details of the matter until recently. There were many things that I was not aware of when retaught about slavery in the eighteenth century. There were European indentured slaves at first then came the Africans for the use of labor. I was not informed of the details of slavery such as that they first arrived in Virgina in British America in 1619 and that the Africans were endentured slaves, meaning that they would only serve a seven to eight year term of labor, then become a free African. Around the year 1672 there became Black Codes, or slave laws which made the idea of African slaves more recognizable to the people and enabled the slave's masters to have complete control over every aspect of their being. Not only was the finding out that African slaves had at one time been endentured servants and would become free being very informative information, but also that African slaves had only made up four percent of the total slave population in British America, where as Brazil made up of thirty-eight percent and forty-two percent in the West Indies. All of this was very mind boggling when it was first taught to me and I enjoyed learning about the little details in my nation's history. I feel it is very important to have complete knowledge of one's history in order to relieve from ignorance.