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]
Clarissa Caraballo on 23 Apr 10washington had a daughter name patsy that died of eplictics .
Goerge washington started a war by mistake. so it was an accident he didn't mean to do it. But he still did who does that sound like.
Yeah and compared to most people he was really tall. People called him a giant.
half brother is lawrence. in love with sally fairfax. best friend of william fairfax
George Washington was a the first and one of the greatest leaders ever. George Washington was known for three things being really tall,good dancer, and a really good horse rider. George Washington went through a lot of things during hes life he went through one of the biggest wars ever the revolutionary war.
he also said he would never fight in war again and returned later on to be a very good leader
george washington was one of the tallest men back then .he loved his brother lawrence like if he was his real brother
Washington had a half brother named Lawrence that he loved very much. Washington was also 6'4 and the average was 5'5. and Washington died in 1799.
Washington was very tall compare to most people and he was a really good dancer and good at riding horses
His half-brothers name is lawrence and the person who inhereted most of his fathers money and george and his mother only inherited a little bit of money
george washington loved his half brother like he was his fully brother. He also was very tall about 6'4 and the average men was about 5'5. Hewas also good at riding horses. Also a good dancer all the ladies wanted to dance with him.
he adored his half brother as much as his full brothers
His parents were Augustine Washington And Mary Bell Washington.
He was born to Augustine and Mary Bell Washington by Pope's Creek on the Potomac River. He was a child of 27. He went to a churchyard school and then to a boarding school thirty miles away. He was born into a wealthy family. He studied surveying, mathematics, and "the rules of civility", but math was his favorite. By: MALIK RODGERS
He presided over the Philadelphia Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 because of general dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation. Washington became President of the United States in 1789 and established many of the customs and usages of the new government's executive department. He sought to create a nation capable of surviving in a world torn asunder by war between Britain and France. His unilateral Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793 provided a basis for avoiding any involvement in foreign conflicts.
george washington started off as commander and cheif of the united states then he resigned and became the first president of the united states of america.
