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In the 17th and 18th centuries, enslaved Africans worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern Atlantic coast, from the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Maryland and Virginia...
- Started in 1619
The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks...
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- Nat Turner
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- 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in...
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After a shackled journey across the Atlantic, Abdulrahman...
- Slavery in America
In 1619, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to...
- Started in 1619
After the Civil War, the racist legacy of slavery persisted, spurring movements of resistance. Learn important dates and facts about the African American experience.
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South.
Within several decades of being brought to the American colonies, Africans were stripped of human rights and enslaved as chattel, an enslavement that lasted more than two centuries. Slavers whipped the enslaved who displeased them. Clergy preached that slavery was the will of God.
American Slavery Time Line: 1492–1663. 1492 – Columbus makes the first of four voyages to the “New World.” Black men arrive with Columbus as sailors, and other Africans come as soldiers with the Spanish explorers who later conquer and colonize the Ca rib bean islands and the Americas.
At least 12 million Africans were taken to the Americas as slaves between 1532 and 1832, and at least a third of them in British ships. Many slaves died on the journey to America, and those who...
Slavery in America is a dark and complex chapter of history that began with the arrival of African slaves in the early 17th century and continued until the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. This timeline provides an overview of key events and milestones that shaped the institution of slavery in America.
