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The history of slavery in America

By Thomslow
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    European settlers in North America turned to African slaves

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    enslaved Africans worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast

  • The beginning of slavery in America

    The privateer The White Lion brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
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    The South faced an economic crisis

    In the late 18th century, with the land used to grow tobacco nearly exhausted.
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    northern states abolished slavery

  • The liberation of some slaves

    Free blacks and other antislavery northerners had begun helping enslaved people escape from southern plantations to the North via a loose network safe houses as early as the 1780s.

  • Invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney

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    Period of slave rebellions

    The first takes place in Richmond in 1800 led by Gabriel Prosser.
    The second takes place in Charleston in 1822 led by Denmark Vesey.
    The third takes place in Southampton County (Virginia) in August 1831 led by Nat Turner. This slave rebellion was the most terrifying for white slaveholders.

  • The U.S congress outlawed the African slave trade

  • The end of Slavery

    The 13th Amendment, adopted on December 18, 1865, officially abolished slavery (after the Civil War's end in 1865).

  • Rebirth of white supremacy had triumphed in the South of America

    Despite seeing an unprecedented degree of black participation in American political life, Reconstruction was ultimately frustating for African Americans, and the rebirth of white supremacy-including the rise of racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)-had triumphed in the South by 1877.

  • Civil rights of America

    American that began during the slavery era would lead to the civil rights movements of the 1960s.