Slavery and Immigrants from Africa

Some things I learned while reading this chapter were:

When slavery existed only in the southern states, the northern states also benefited from it. 

Also, slavery helped with the development of western and American capitalism.

It is hard to know a lot of about African slaves because they were illiterate and couldn’t keep journals. So only slave owners kept documents about slaves and also the names that they wanted to call them.

Slave owners had their preference with the ethnicities of their slaves.

Between 13 and 33 percent of slaves that left Africa were never delivered.

Even though most of the slaves were male, the female population eventually increased.

The death rate for slave babies was about 25 percent more than for white babies.

The life expectancy of white people was 12 percent higher than for slave.