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Slavery started in America in 1619.

The slaves didn't have anything to say, they should just obey.

If the slaves didn't do what they were told to, they would get punished by their owners.
The treatment of the slaves was brutal. Some of them were sexual abused and raped.

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African slaves was transported by ships.

they worked on plantations

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Mississippi was the worst place to be a slave

Black families were separated because slave owners did not want to buy a whole family

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Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th

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Slaves worked in cotton fields and The white man treated them like animals.
Martin Luther King referred to The Declariation of indepentence when he hold his speech about that black lives matter.

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The first English settlement was called Jamestown and was created in 1607, when the 104 first settlers came to America

In America all men are created equally, however slavery was a big part of the american history

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Riisgaard                                   The cotton kingdom created an economic boom in the 19th 

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Riisgaard                                   The cotton kingdom created an economic boom in the 19th 

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The slaves were owned by rich white people

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Slaves was not allowed to learn how to read and write 

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Slaves was not allowed to learn how to read and write 

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Cecilie

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The slaves were sold on auctions

The slaves were put in the "slave coffles" in long lines

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Slavery started in America in 1619.

The slaves didn't have anything to say, they should just obey.

If the slaves didn't do what they were told to, they would get punished by their owners.
The treatment of the slaves was brutal. Some of them were sexual abused and raped.

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Slaves picked cotton in the Southern states

Estimated that 10-11 million slaves crossed the Atlantic Ocean - 1600-1900's

The slaves were transported in ships where they had no space and they rarely had the opportunity to be outside

The conditions at those ships were terrible

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The liveing conditions for the slaves was terrible

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Slaves picked cotton in the Southern states.
The states in the south were referred to as "The Cotton Kingdom".

Estimated that 10-11 million slaves crossed the Atlantic Ocean  - 1600-1900´s.
The slave voyages were horrible.
They were kept in chains and crammed together. The weather decided whether or not they were allowed to go upstairs on the deck.
Police brutality.
Emancipation Proclamation.

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Slaves didn’t have many rights.

They got punished physically (whipping).

They had to do all the master said.

They were owned by white people.

The Northern states wanted to abolish the slavery and the Southern states wanted to keep the slavery.

They were humiliated.

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The Unites States of America was one of the last countries in which slavery was made illegal.
The slavery was one of the biggest reasons why the civil war began. The northern states were not supporters of slavery and thought it to be a violation of human rights whereas the southern states were making a lot of money on slavery and therefore they did not want to make slavery illegal.
One of the most infamous places for slavery was Jamestown, Virginia. Here, the slaves would pick cotton and do other labour without getting something back from their "masters".

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Haiti was freed by Boukmann and was the first independent Black Country. There was killed 4000 white men in the rebellion.

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By 1861 cotton made 2/3 of all The USA export.

The voyages for the slaves was horrible. The mens was in chains. Every slaves was kept under the deck.

About 10-11 miollion was crossed from Africa to America