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