The slaves in the US

The first slaves in the US? 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