In 1777, many of the black communities became leaders and created their own independent churches and schools and they were called the “Free Black Communities”. Sooner or later the Declaration of Independence came about and it changed the meaning of American freedom. “The Declaration’s enduring impact came not from the complaints against George III but from Jefferson’s preamble, especially the second paragraph, which begins, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable …show more content…
200). In the 1800s, the Cotton Kingdom was the significant effect of our growth of slavery. Cotton was such a profit for the planters it created such a benefit for them for not only land but in slave labor. After cotton became such a huge profit many states became slave holders. “After Congress prohibited the Atlantic slave trade in 1808- the earliest date allowed by the Constitution – a massive trade in slaves developed within the United States, supply the labor force required by the new Cotton Kingdom” (Foner, p. 335). Many slaves were sold solely on to work on cotton fields so their owners can make the most money having slaves work in the field for them and some were even chained together while traveling to Virginia to Louisiana. During the nineteenth century it was the absolute worse for African Americans especially men, “Despite racial inequalities, many whites of revolutionary generation had thought of African Americans as “citizens of color,” potential members of the body politic” (Foner, p. 372). During this time black males were treated very poorly denying their rights to join the military, no equal rights including voting, testify in court, or