It is unfair for people to be known as property
With its origin in the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.
Perspective drove that conclusion. What caused this?
Military Importance. Theodore Roosevelt was interested in building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans before the Spanish-American war in 1898. He wanted a shorter route for naval ships needing to pass between the two oceans.