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Africans were brought to American colonies to be slaves to help on the rapid growth of the cotton and tobacco industries. Their offsprings became African Americans but almost all of them were still slaves.
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From the 1830s, both Americans and African Americans started movements to abolish slaveries driven by moral and religious grounds. Many northern antislavery activists free slaves and started to form free slave states.
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Conflicts between the North and the South was worsened and the Civil started because of slavery issues.
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The 13th Amendment was officially adopted in 1865 which officially freed slaves, yet post-war Southern slaves persisted.
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Many post war southern states launched segregation laws to separate African Americans from whites for education and even in public facilities
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The Civil Rights Act was passed into laws, restoring African Americans civil rights.
