Hey Kids! SLAVERY IN AMERICA WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT TOPIC TO WRITE A TERM PAPER ON... DO RESEARCH, TELL THE STORY, FORM CONCLUSIONS, PUBLISH... GET AN "A" GRADE IN SCHOOL... and Make Republicriminals Mad as Hell because you told the Truth!
Briefly: Starting in 1619, European People Kidnapped African People and Brought them in Sailboats to America, The Carribean and South America. The African People Were Used to Work in The Fields Growing Sugar Cane, Cotton and Tobacco...
...and TO THIS DAY in 2021... People of African Descent are Discriminated Against... Including Mass Incarceration of Black Men and Endless Murders by The Police... While The American Civil War Technically Ended Slavery, Conditions are Still Horrible for Black People in America...
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work as indentured servants and labor in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton. 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 bloody Civil War. Though the Union victory freed the nation’s four million enslaved people, the legacy of slavery continued to influence American history, from the Reconstruction, to the civil rights movement that emerged a century after emancipation and beyond.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/aug/15/400-years-since-slavery-timeline
In 1619, a ship with 20 captives landed at Point Comfort in Virginia, ushering in the era of American slavery...
Many Americans’ introduction to US history is the arrival of 102 passengers on the Mayflower in 1620. But a year earlier, 20 enslaved Africans were brought to the British colonies against their will.
As John Rolfe noted in a letter in 1619, “20 and odd negroes” were brought by a Dutch ship to the nascent British colonies, arriving at what is now Fort Hampton, then Point Comfort, in Virginia. Though enslaved Africans had been part of Portuguese, Spanish, French and British history across the Americas since the 16th century, the captives who landed in Virginia were probably the first slaves to arrive into what would become the United States 150 years later.
Four hundred years on, the captives’ arrival has informed nearly every major moment in American history, even if that history has been framed around anyone but Africans and African Americans.
“Historians, elected political figures [and] community leaders would prefer to sort of imagine the United States as a kind of mythic, Anglo-Saxon Christian place,” says Michael Guasco, an early American history professor at Davidson College.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
In 1992, Toni Morrison told the Guardian: “In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
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