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Slavery
Slavery started in what is now the United States in 1619. In that year, a load of slaves was dropped off in Jamestown, the first settlement in what is now the United States -
The end of slave importaton
Congree legislates an end to bringing slaves into the states. -
Minstrel show
The minstrel show, with it's black preformers, crude racial caricatures, and the song "jump jim crow" becomes apart of the american culture. -
Civil War Ends
The civil war ends bringing an end to slavery -
slave songs
African American spirituals are published -
Jim Crow
Southern states move to the "Jim Crow" system of segregation, passing laws to exclude African Americans from their everyday life. Radical violence and lynchings increase. -
Blus song
The first blues song, included W.C. Handy's "Mephis Blues", arepublished as sheet music.