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Throughout the 17th century African slaves as a cheaper.
European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants, who were mostly poor Europeans. -
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17th and 18th centuries people are kidnapped from Africa.
Exploited to work as indentured servants and labor in the production. -
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In the 17th and 18th centuries enslaved Africans worked mainly on plantations
The tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast are cultivated by slaves. -
Beginning of slavery in america.
The privateer The White Lion brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. -
In the 18th century 6 to 7 million enslaved people were imported to the New World.
settlers are depriving the African continent of some of its healthiest and ablest men and women. -
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18th century the South faced an economic crisis.
In the late 18th century, with the land used to grow tobacco nearly exhausted, the South faced an economic crisis, and the continued growth of slavery in America seemed in doubt. -
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abolition of slavery
Between 1774 and 1804, all of the northern states abolished slavery. -
Call for slavery’s abolition.
After the American Revolution, many colonists—particularly in the North—began to call for slavery’s abolition. -
Congress outlaw the African slave trade.
Though the U.S. Congress outlawed the African slave trade in 1808, the enslaved population in the U.S. nearly tripled over the next 50 years. -
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the movement to abolish slavery gained strength.
From the 1830s to the 1860s, the movement to abolish slavery in America gained strength, led by Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. -
slave's rebelion
The revolt that most terrified white slaveholders was that led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. -
great debate over slavery by the mid-19th century.
America’s westward expansion and the abolition movement provoked a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the Civil War. -
Abraham lincoln
Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation made official that “slaves within any State, or designated part of a State…in rebellion,…shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
