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The History of slavery can sometimes be very controversial and confusing. The beginning of slavery in America wasn't its original intent. In 1619 a Dutch ship arrived in America after visiting Africa with a cargo that contained about thirty black servants. The intentions for the blacks was to only be labor servants and not slaves. African Americans have always placed blame on the whites as the ones who made them slaves. The start of the slave trade in British North America by ships that were visiting Africa, were offered blacks as labor servants. The blacks in Africa would capture other blacks to be sold to the ships that came to their shores. The blacks sold the captured blacks to the whites in trade for barley, wheat, alcohol, etc. The hard reality is that blacks started selling their own into slavery to the whites for goods they had never had before. England and America protested heavily against slavery during this era. But as long as the blacks in Africa were supplying the slaves for goods it became a profitable enterprise for some. The King of Britain encouraged these acts, and anytime the public went against slavery the King and Parliament would not recant on the issue, but instead had firmly established slavery. But as long as the blacks in Africa had customer's coming, they always had a supply of captured blacks ready for trade.

Many under a false belief accuse the founding fathers of this nation of enlisting, as with the buying and selling of slaves. But during that era those who had slaves, usually inherited them from dead family members. In 1773 in a letter to Dean Woodward, Benjamin Franklin confirmed that whenever the Americas had attempted to end slavery, the British government had thwarted their attempts. With exceptions many slave owners treated their slaves very well. A few men that didn't agree with George Washington on certain issues had plotted to kill him during a dinner meeting. A black slave woman of George Washington who served the dinner had over heard this plan the night before and while serving the dinner she whispered to George Washington telling him not to eat the peas, because they were poisoned. He threw the peas out the window for the chickens to eat in confirming this attempt on his life, sadly all the chickens fell dead after eating the peas. If it wasn't for that black slave woman, George Washington would have never been president. He, with many others fought for the abolishment of slavery during that era, but many others

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