The first British colonists in Carolina introduced African slavery into the colony in 1670, the year the colony was founded, and Charleston ultimately became the busiest slave port in North America.
Slavery in America started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 290 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
The African colonies helped build a new nation into an economic powerhouse. 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
The slaves where an easy and cheap option to make money. The slaves weren’t seen as real people. They were animals.
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The civil war
Abraham Lincoln took office in March 1861. On April 12, after Lincoln ordered a fleet to resupply Sumter, Confederate artillery fired the first shots of the Civil War.
The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of disagreements about slavery between the northern and southern states.
The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states
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