Slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. It had its origins with the first English colonization of North America in Virginia in 1607, although African slaves were brought to Spanish Florida as early as the 1560s.[1] Most slaves were black and were held by whites, although some Native Americans and free blacks also held slaves; there was a small number of white slaves as well.[citation needed] Slaves were spread to the areas where there was good quality soil for large plantations of high value cash crops, such as cotton, sugar, and coffee. The majority of slaveholders were in the southern United States, where most slaves were engaged in an efficient machine-like gang system of agriculture, with farms of fifteen or more slaves proving to be far more productive than farms without slaves.[citation needed] Also, these large groups of slaves were thought to work more efficiently if guarded by a managerial class called overseers to ensure that the slaves did not waste a second of movement.
From 1654 until 1865, slavery for life was legal within the boundaries of much of the present United States.[2] Before the widespread establishment of chattel slavery (outright ownership of the slave), much labor was organized under a system of bonded labor known as indentured servitude. This typically lasted for several years for white and black alike, and it was a means of using labor to pay the costs of transporting people to the colonies.[3] By the 18th century, court rulings established the racial basis of the American incarnation of slavery to apply chiefly to Black Africans and people of African descent, and occasionally to Native Americans. In part because of the success of tobacco as a cash crop in the Southern colonies, its labor-intensive character caused planters to import more slaves for labor by the end of the 17th century than did the northern colonies. The South had a significantly high number and proportion of slaves in the population.[3]
Twelve million Africans were shipped to the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries.[4][5] Of these, an estimated 645,000 were brought to what is now the United States. The largest number were shipped to Brazil (see slavery in Brazil).[6] The slave population in the United States had grown to four million by the 1860 Census.[7]
Slavery was one of the principal issues leading to the American Civil War. After the Union prevailed in the war, slavery was abolished throughout the United States with the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[8]
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Most of the slaves were African Americans. The masters theat they worked for called them negores. They would be bought and sold like they were property. This was very diffficult for blacks to deal with for 200 years.
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If they didnt do there job they would get whipped mulitiple times until the blood ouze out and ended with a splash of salt water
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They would whip any black slave that either didn't listen to their masters ot did something to make them mad. Francis was a indentured servant who was snetenced to 30 whips. But not only Francis got whipped, possibly many other Africna sprobably got whipped even more!
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francis also has gotten a bigger punishment because some time later she got prgenate by her owner so not only did she get the whip punishment i think she was sent to life in being a slave i dont really know what happend to her baby though ( she was raped by her owner and they punished her instead of her owner thats quite messed up )
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Back in the time of George Washington, women had no rights like the African men did. They were "reproducting tools" to whites. They would engage in sexual intercourse with men to produce more slaves, sort of like a business. If they didn't have sex with other African men, they were raped by their masters and most of the time it didn't turn out good for them because her rapist was white. Whites had more rights.
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African slaves were brought to Spanish Florida as early as the 1560s
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Slaves were punished with a variety of objects and instruments. Some of these included: whips, placed in chains and shackles, various contraptions such as metal collars, being hanged, and even forced to walk a treadmill
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An animation showing when United States territories and states forbade or allowed slavery, 1789-1861
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The Dutch, French, an the Spanish made a lot of money selling slaves to each other
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They also collected cotton from the fields feeding there masters and carrying for any kids that there. The lived in small one room huts. The slept on hay beds along with maybe 7 more people squished together. The Master usually have 100's of slaves per farm.
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The Slaves were also sold for tabaco . Becuase tabaco was like money back then .
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Slaves in the time of George Washington's time were treated with no respect. the slaves would get sold for tobacco and money.also even when the black people were free they would still have to respect all the white people because they weren't treated the same as other free citizens.like there was a woman named Francis and she was a free African American that wasn't treated the same as the whites she would go to court for thingts she would do and wipe her. then she went to court again and they made her become a slave for 10 years. then her owner told her if he dies she was free but that didn't happen to her. the slave owner died and she went back to court because they didn't believe her so the family of the died slave owner got the slave to work for them for the rest of there life.
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some people were agianst slaves but still owned for example john adams and george washington.
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Slavery (also called thralldom) is a form of forced labour in which people are considered to be the property of others.
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America was one of the last to end slavery. It took 200 years to do this.
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If a woman gives birth to a child and she is free then the child will automatically be free also but if she is not the child must remain a slave
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american was one of the last country to end slavery it toook over 200 years for this to happen
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People that worked for this kind of slavery were known as indentured servants. Indentured servants were mostly white. They were also treated better than any of the other slaves. They could have their freedom after the time they promised to the specific person is over.
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The indentured servants would work for 7 years and after that they were free .
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if they werent indentured slaves they had to work till they died indentured slaves were mostly white.
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the birth of slave children to slaves
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This rule was a little different. It is known that if the mother of the children was a slve then the children were slaves too. But if the mother is free then the children are free too.
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it did not matter if the father was free because if the mother was a slave soa were the children
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the white men had sex whith african slaves and if they had children the children had to be slaves till the mom was free
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Blacks taken from africa are oiled and said across then traded. After that process they are forced to work for the slave owners and traded again for tabacco.
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during the voyage of transporting the slaves to the new world almost 50% died coming over here
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many slaves dided while coming to america, they were force captured from africa
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Approximately 10–20% of the rural population of Carolingian Europe consisted of slaves
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Slavery (also called thralldom ) is a form of forced labour in which people are considered to be the property of others . Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand wages.
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By this definition there are approximately 27 million slaves in the world today, more than at any point in history and more than twice as many as all African slaves who survived being taken to the Americas in the Atlantic slave trade.[2][3][4]
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Slavery was prominent presumably elsewhere in Africa long before the beginnings of the transatlantic slave trade.[69
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Slavery has existed, in one form or another, through the whole of recorded human history — as have, in various periods, movements to free large or distinct groups of slaves.
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Tabbaco is what made the slave owners so rich they would sell a young slave for 200 pounds of tabbaco
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Slaves were not people (metaphorically speaking). They were property. They were treated like animals. Their masters would often whip them as a lesson of discipline.
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slaves had no rights at all basically they were property to the white people they could not even vouch for there selves in the court of law
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This about how Africans came to this country. They did not come very peacefully. In fact, people actually went to Africa & Barbados to capture any black person to bring them as their slave.
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This about how Africans came to this country. They did not come very peacefully. In fact, people actually went to Africa & Barbados to capture any black person to bring them as their slave.
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Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as The Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present right-wing[2] US organizations.
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The first Klan was founded in 1865 in Tennessee by veterans of the Confederate Army.
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Klan groups spread throughout the South as an insurgent movement after the war. As a secret vigilante group, the Klan reacted against Radical Republican control of Reconstruction by attempting to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans.
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In 1915, the second Klan was founded
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At its peak in the mid-1920s, the organization claimed to include about 15% of the nation's eligible population,
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It was founded and colonized by freed American slaves with the help of a private organization called the American Colonization Society in 1821-1822,
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Slaves freed from slave ships also were sent there instead of being repatriated to their countries of origin.
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The history of Liberia is unique among African nations, notably because of its relationship with the United States.
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The history of Liberia is unique among African nations, notably because of its relationship with the United States.
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The history of Liberia is unique among African nations, notably because of its relationship with the United States.
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1.1 Robert Smalls, a slave, commandeers Planter and escapes
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Smalls and his crew are awarded half the value of Planter The United States Senate and House of Representatives passed a private bill on 30 May 1862, granting Robert Smalls and his African-American crew one half of the value of Planter and her cargo as prize money.
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Robert Smalls, a slave, commandeers Planter and escapes At 04:00 on 13 May 1862, while her captain, C. J. Relyea, was absent on shore, Robert Smalls — a slave who was Planter's pilot — quietly took the ship from the wharf, and with a Confederate flag flying, steamed past the successive Confederate forts, saluting as usual by blowing her steam whistle. As soon as the steamer was out of range of the last Confederate gun, Smalls hauled down the Confederate flag and hoisted a white one. Then he turned Planter over to Onward of the Union blockading force. Besides Smalls, Planter carried seven other black men, five women, and three children to freedom. Moreover, in addition to the cargo of artillery and explosives, Smalls brought Flag officer Samuel Francis Du Pont valuable intelligence including word that the Confederates had abandoned defensive positions on the Stono River.
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story about slaves there are two are indentures and the one black man they descide to flee.they then got caught and the white men got a couple of more years added to there time and the black man was sentence for life.if you where a slave you can buy your way out and become a free man or women.also if you where a free man you still didnt have rights.the master needed money and he sold the slaves kids away .then he dies and the women gets everything the animals the slaves the house and the money anthony garcia
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A heavy British military presence in Boston led to a tense situation that boiled over into incitement of brawls between soldiers and civilians and eventually led to troops discharging their muskets after being attacked by a rioting crowd. Three civilians were killed at the scene of the shooting, eleven were injured, and two died after the
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This 2 sentences tell how many people die in battle and injure and the shooting with there muskets.
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there was a black guy that was killed in the boston masacre and was like the first black guy in that time where that place was
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john adams and everyone else thought it was a fire but alot of people were killed
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THE HORRID MASSACRE IN BOSTON, PERPETRATED IN THE EVENING OF THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH, 1770, BY SOLDIERS OF THE TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT WHICH WITH THE FOURTEENTH REGIMENT WERE THEN QUARTERED THERE; WITH SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF THINGS PRIOR TO THAT CATASTROPHE
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The Boston Massacre was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolution.
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he also drew the picture that was wrong about the british soliders. he drew that the leader was in the back of his men but it reality the leader was in front of his man because he didn't want his man to shoot .
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Paul Revere is most know for the one who came in saying the british are cominq the british are coming
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Paul Revere was Known for saying "The Bristish are comming! " He was a member of the Sons Of Liberty.
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he was also known for drawing out the boston massacre wrong by putting the general behind the row of men , not in front , and he left out like one or two black guuys that got shot down
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ul Revere (bap. January 1, 1735 [O.S. December 22, 1734] – May 10, 1818)[1] was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.
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Revere had numerous siblings with whom he appears to have been not particularly close. Revere's father, born Apollos Rivoire, came to Boston at the age of 13 and was apprenticed to a silversmith.
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The warning delivered by the three riders successfully allowed the militia to repel the British troops in Concord, who were harried by guerrilla fire along the road back to Boston. Prescott knew the countryside well even in the dark, and arrived at Concord in time to warn the people there.
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In his poem, Longfellow took many liberties with the events of the evening, most especially giving sole credit to Revere for the collective achievements of the three riders (as well as the other riders whose names do not survive to history). Longfellow also depicts the lantern signal in the Old North Church as meant for Revere and not from him, as was actually the case.
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He was celebrated after his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord, and Revere's name and his "midnight ride" are well-known in the United States as a patriotic symbol. In his lifetime, Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston craftsman, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military.
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paul revere was a silversmith and he was a member of the sons of liberty and the most famous thing he said was "the british are coming, the british are coming"!
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Paul Revere rode into town yelling "The British are coming". At the time the British had atleast 32,000 men. Revere rode around town yelling at night.
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