Tobacco became the success of Jamestown, Virginia when export to England began in 1619. With the income produced, the city decided to arrange for two imports: 20 black men for manual labor and 90 women from England as brides. Thus America began its history of slavery (Innercity.org 2014). Photographs, art, journalism, and literature displayed its brutality. The public was informed of families torn apart, beatings, murder, and rape. The general theme was inhumanity, but there were many owners of slaves that treated them well. history remembers beatings, rape, murder, and splitting families apart.
The indignities ...