HISTORY OF BLACK SLAVERY IN AMERICA

THE FIRST BLACK SLAVES TO COME TO AMERICA WERE "SOLD" BY BLACKS IN AFRICA TO SPANISH ..THE SPANISH SHIP WAS OVERCOME BY THE DUTCH WHO BROUGHT 19 "BLACK" SLAVES TO JAMESTOWN VA ..SO TO BE TRUTHFUL THE BLACKS IN AFRICA SOLD THEIR OWN BLACK PEOPLE FOR MONEY TO SPANISH TRADERS..THESE FIRST SLAVES ARRIVED IN JAMESTOWN VA IN 1619.. Slavery in the United StatesFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For modern slavery in the United States, see Human trafficking in the United States. 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Slavery had been practiced in British North America from early colonial days, and was firmly established by the time of the United States' Declaration of Independence (1776). After this, there was a gradual spread of abolitionism in the North, while the rapid expansion of the cotton industry from 1800 caused the South to identify strongly with slavery, and attempt to extend it into the new Western territories. Thus slavery polarized the nation into slave states and free states along the Mason-Dixon Line, which separated Maryland (slave) and Pennsylvania (free). Although the international slave trade was prohibited from 1808, internal slave-trading continued apace, and the slave population would eventually peak at four million before abolition.[1][2] Of all 1,515,605 families in the 15 slave states in 1860, nearly 400,000 held slaves (roughly one in four),[3] amounting to 8% of all American families.[4] As the West opened up, there was a perceived need to keep a balance between the numbers of slave and free states, so that neither side would feel at a disadvantage in Congress. The new territories acquired from Britain, France, and later from Mexico, were the subject of major political compromises. By 1850, the newly-rich cotton-growing South was threatening to secede from the Union, and tensions continued to rise, even church ministers being under pressure to preach the relevant policies. When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election on a ticket of no new slave states, the South finally broke away to form the Confederacy. This marked the start of the Civil War, which caused a huge disruption of Southern life, with many slaves either escaping or being liberated by the Union armies. The war itself had effectively killed slavery, before the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (December 1865) formally outlawed the institution throughout the USA.