Slavery in the US By Grace Douthit
Beginning ● 1619, Started as indentured servants in Jamestown o boosting economy ● Increase production of cash crops o more demand, more money ●Landowners turned to African slaves to be more profitable o Racial discrimination started in 1680’s ●Rights were taken away
Peak ●1793, Eli Whitney, cotton gin= more demand for labor o tobacco cotton ●plantation= small shacks, malnutrition ●Families were split up ●North started to abolish slavery o Underground Railroad
End ●1861, Civil War o Divided the North and South o Sovereign states and indivisible nations with sovereign national government and slavery ●1863, Emancipation Proclamation o Did not free slaves but made the war more about human freedom ●1864, 13th Amendment
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