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Hundreds of thousands of Africans, both free and enslaved, aided the establishment and survival of colonies in the Americas and the New World. However, many consider a significant starting point to...
- Started in 1619
Servants of African origin were oftentimes forced to...
- 5 Myths About Slavery
4. Myth #4: The Union went to war to end slavery. On the...
- 13th Amendment
By 1861, when the Civil War broke out, more than 4 million...
- 14th Amendment
In creating the Civil Rights Act of 1866, Congress was using...
- 40 Years a Slave
After a shackled journey across the Atlantic, Abdulrahman...
- Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an escaped enslaved woman who became a...
- Started in 1619
During the 17th and 18th centuries, African and African American (those born in the New World) slaves worked mainly on the tobacco, rice, and indigo plantations of the Southern seaboard. Eventually slavery became rooted in the South’s huge cotton and sugar plantations.
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South. Slavery was established throughout European colonization in the Americas.
Though people of African descent — free and enslaved — were present in North America as early as the 1500s, the sale of the “20 and odd” African people set the course for what would become...
Approximately 600,000 of 10 million African slaves made their way into the American colonies before the slave trade – not slavery – was banned by Congress in 1808. By 1860, though, the US...
From inventing dry-cleaning to sugar refining to the first steamboat propeller, African Americans have been active contributors to the economic, political, and social legacies of the United States. Much of U.S. history, however, is contextualized by the system of slavery that was imposed on African Americans for 250 years—and how those born ...
A significant number of enslaved Africans arrived in the American colonies by way of the Caribbean, where they were “seasoned” and mentored into slave life. They spent months or years...