https://padlet.com/galvarez0917/z77jlqxnkiwz Made with panache en-us 2017-12-12 17:26:57 UTC 2017-12-15 17:25:34 UTC hello@padlet.com galvarez0917 https://padlet.com/galvarez0917/z77jlqxnkiwz/wish/215529284 Slavery.]]> 2017-12-12 17:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/galvarez0917/z77jlqxnkiwz/wish/215529284 galvarez0917 https://padlet.com/galvarez0917/z77jlqxnkiwz/wish/215530461 Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 solidified the central importance of slavery to the South’s economy. By the mid-19th century, America’s westward expansion, along with a growing abolition movement in the North, would provoke a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody American Civil War (1861-65). Though the Union victory freed the nation’s 4 million slaves, the legacy of slavery continued to influence American history, from the tumultuous years of Reconstruction (1865-77) to the civil rights movement that emerged in the 1960s, a century after emancipation.]]> 2017-12-12 17:37:51 UTC https://padlet.com/galvarez0917/z77jlqxnkiwz/wish/215530461 galvarez0917 https://padlet.com/galvarez0917/z77jlqxnkiwz/wish/215530846 Yes and no the problem has been solved in some parts of the world but there is still slavery out there.]]> 2017-12-12 17:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/galvarez0917/z77jlqxnkiwz/wish/215530846 galvarez0917 https://padlet.com/galvarez0917/z77jlqxnkiwz/wish/215532171 It didn't end on Jan. 1, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation proclamation. That was a Civil War executive order that freed slaves only in parts of the South that were not under control of the Union Army. Slaves in sections of Virginia and Louisiana occupied by the Union Army were left in bondage — and those in the rest of the Confederacy weren't actually freed because Lincoln didn't control those rebellious areas. And despite the fact that more then half of the states and the District of Columbia have a Juneteenth observance to celebrate the end of slavery, slavery wasn't ended in June 1865. That's when slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned of the Emancipation Proclamation. But by then, that presidential executive order was widely thought to be unenforceable, and the 13th Amendment had been passed by Congress and was sent to the states for approval.]]> 2017-12-12 17:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/galvarez0917/z77jlqxnkiwz/wish/215532171 galvarez0917 https://padlet.com/galvarez0917/z77jlqxnkiwz/wish/215533220 We still need to end slavery.

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