Aug 14, 2019 · The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony, in 1619, is often seen as the beginning of slavery in America—but enslaved Africans arrived in North America as early as the 1500s. Author:

Jun 17, 2020 · States fighting to hold on to slavery began tightening literacy laws in the early 1830s. In April 1831, Virginia declared that any meetings to teach free African Americans to read or write was ...

May 03, 2016 · 2. Myth #2: The South seceded from the Union over the issue of states’ rights, not slavery. This myth, that the Civil War wasn’t fundamentally a conflict over slavery, would have been a ...

May 03, 2018 · VIDEO: Slavery in America. In 1619, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, planting the seeds of a slavery system that evolved into a nightmare of abuse and cruelty that ...

Jun 29, 2020 · PHOTOS: Slavery in America. How Slavery Evolved in New England. In the 17th century, the majority of enslaved people in colonial New England were Native Americans. This shifted in the 18th century ...

Aug 02, 2019 · How Bacon's Rebellion Planted the Seeds of Race-Based Slavery In the aftermath of the rebellion, white planters reacted with alarm to the anger they had seen among the black Virginians who had ...

Jan 25, 2022 · Slavery in America Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work in the production ...

Sep 21, 2012 · 1. Lincoln wasn’t an abolitionist. Abraham Lincoln did believe that slavery was morally wrong, but there was one big problem: It was sanctioned by the highest law in the land, the Constitution ...

May 28, 2022 · Westward Expansion was the 19th-century movement of settlers, agriculture and industry into the American West. Learn about the Louisiana Purchase, manifest destiny, the Gold Rush and more.

Jun 19, 2015 · Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday.