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ESTABLISHMENT OF SLAVERY

The First Enslaved Africans Arrive in Virginia

Slavery was a significant part of the colonial economy, forming the foundation for the Southern colonies labor-intensive agricultural economy.

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The system was deeply embedded in the transAtlantic trade, benefiting the colonies economically by utilizing the skilled labor of enslaved africans in various STEM related capacities.

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Some scholars that slavery itself spurred modernity and technology advancement (Beckert & Rockman, 2016).

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Massachusetts Formally Legalizes Slavery

Hermann (2020) author argues that the law can be seen as a form of an algorightm explaining, "American Slavery constitues a meeting ground of three very different cultural practices and concerns: a rising interest in data, understood as a symbolic form; abolitionism's desire to establish a consensus at least on the faces of slavery, if not on the moral significance; and the law as a complex tropical framework capable of expressing the relationship between subject, society, and fact." 

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