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In the late 18th century, with the land used to grow tobacco nearly exhausted, the South faced an economic crisis

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By the mid-19th century, America’s westward expansion, along with a growing abolition movement in the North

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from the tumultuous years of Reconstruction (1865-77) to the civil rights movement that emerged in the 1960s, a century after emancipation.

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Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco.

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Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown,

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presently this news came to their ears, that they were come from Ireland, full of victuals [food].”

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From the 1830s to the 1860s, a movement to abolish slavery in America gained strength in the northern United States, led by free blacks such as Frederick Douglass and white supporters such as William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the radical newspaper The Liberator, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, who published the bestselling antislavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852).

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Slave revolts did occur within the system (notably ones led by Gabriel Prosser in Richmond in 1800 and by Denmark Vesey in Charleston in 1822), but few were successful.

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. Our captain was a Low Country 3 soldier, one Mr. Southcot, a brave soldier. In the morning, some of the Indians came and stood at a distance off, looking at us, but came not near us. B

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In 1793, a young Yankee schoolteacher named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a simple mechanized device that efficiently removed the seeds.

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One Englishman that could speak the Indian language (an old planter) went to them and advised them not to come near us in the night, and they hearkened to his counsel

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In the late 18th century, with the land used to grow tobacco nearly exhausted, the South faced an economic crisis, and the continued growth of slavery in America seemed in doubt.

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The total number of dead at war’s end was 620,000 (out of a population of some 35 million), making it the costliest conflict in American history.

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African continent of some of its healthiest and ablest men and women.

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In cemeteries which were now described as dormitories winged cherubs replaced the grisly deaths heads and winged skulls that marked early Puritan graves.

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In cemeteries which were now described as dormitories winged cherubs replaced the grisly deaths heads and winged skulls that marked early Puritan graves.

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June 2, 1609, a fleet "of seven good ships and two pinnaces, weighed anchor from Plymouth Sound," bound for Jamestown

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June 2, 1609, a fleet "of seven good ships and two pinnaces, weighed anchor from Plymouth Sound," bound for Jamestown

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Where, in the seventeenth century, children were told to fear death, they were increasingly told in the eighteenth century look forward to death as a reunion with God and their parents.

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Where, in the seventeenth century, children were told to fear death, they were increasingly told in the eighteenth century look forward to death as a reunion with God and their parents.

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After 1650 Puritan funerals became increasingly elaborate and expensive and tombstones less plain.

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After 1650 Puritan funerals became increasingly elaborate and expensive and tombstones less plain.

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Free blacks and other antislavery northerners had begun helping fugitive slaves escape from southern plantations to the North via a loose network of safe houses as early as the 1780s. 

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Free blacks and other antislavery northerners had begun helping fugitive slaves escape from southern plantations to the North via a loose network of safe houses as early as the 1780s. 

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5. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 solidified the central importance of slavery to the South’s economy.

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in the early 17th century, european settlers in north america turned to africans as a cheaper more plentiful labor source

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in the early 17th century, european settlers in north america turned to africans as a cheaper more plentiful labor source

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president George Percy identified the winter of 1609–10 as "this starveinge Tyme,"

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president George Percy identified the winter of 1609–10 as "this starveinge Tyme,"

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From the 1830s to the 1860s, a movement to abolish slavery in America gained strength in the northern United States

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From the 1830s to the 1860s, a movement to abolish slavery in America gained strength in the northern United States

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European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper labor source

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European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper labor source

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Though the Union victory freed the nation’s 4 million slaves

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Though the Union victory freed the nation’s 4 million slaves

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4. Slave marriages had no legal basis, but slaves did marry and raise large families; most slave owners encouraged this practice, but nonetheless did not hesitate to divide slave families by sale or removal.

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3.Many masters took sexual liberties with slave women, and rewarded obedient slave behavior with favors, while rebellious slaves were brutally punished.

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Slave revolts did occur within the system but few were successful.

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Slave revolts did occur within the system but few were successful.

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2.  Slaves first started picking tobacco before cotton.

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African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation.

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African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation.

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 Captain Christopher Newport, who had commanded the original fleet, returned with two ships of supplies early in 1608,  Jamestown caught fire

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 Captain Christopher Newport, who had commanded the original fleet, returned with two ships of supplies early in 1608,  Jamestown caught fire

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6-7 million slaves were imported to the new world during the 18th century alone.

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1. In 1619 is when it first started.

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I was born in England, in Sallcom, in Devonshire, in the year of our Lord 1609.

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North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619

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North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619

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Slavery was practiced throughout the american colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries

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The 1607 arrivals numbered 104 or 105 men and boys , & half died by the end of the year

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The 1607 arrivals numbered 104 or 105 men and boys , & half died by the end of the year

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Diseases like influenza, measles, pneumonia, scarlet fever, and smallpox ravaged the population, producing death rates as high as 30 per thousand.

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Diseases like influenza, measles, pneumonia, scarlet fever, and smallpox ravaged the population, producing death rates as high as 30 per thousand.

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slavery first began when the slaves were brought to jamestown, virgina

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slavery first began when the slaves were brought to jamestown, virgina

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Roger Clap wrote about his first year in New England (1630) and his battle against starvation

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The first 102 Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth in 1620 half died during the first winter.

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The first 102 Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth in 1620 half died during the first winter.

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Slaves in American began the first African America was brought to NA of Jamestown 

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Slaves in American began the first African America was brought to NA of Jamestown 

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 in the 1690's it was known as the starving time

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 in the 1690's it was known as the starving time