By the mid 19th century Americas westwards expansion along with the growing Abolitionism Movement in the North, would provoke a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody American Civil War 1861 to 1865 Though the Union victory freed the nation 4 million slaves, the legacy of slavery continued to influence American from the tumultuous history years of reconstruction 1865 to 1877 to the Civil Rights Movements that emerges in the 1960s a century after emancipation.
This Black Social History is design for the education of all races about Black People Contribution to world history over the past centuries, even though its well hidden from the masses so that our children dont even know the relationship between Black People and the wealth of their history in terms of what we have contributed to make this world a better place for all.
Sunday 2 December 2012
BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY: SLAVERY IN AMERICA PART A:
Slavery in America began when the first African Americans were brought to North American Colony of James town, Virginia in 1619 to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. Slavery was practice through out the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and African American Slaves helped build the economic foundations of the Nation. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 solidified the central importance of Slavery to the South economic.
By the mid 19th century Americas westwards expansion along with the growing Abolitionism Movement in the North, would provoke a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody American Civil War 1861 to 1865 Though the Union victory freed the nation 4 million slaves, the legacy of slavery continued to influence American from the tumultuous history years of reconstruction 1865 to 1877 to the Civil Rights Movements that emerges in the 1960s a century after emancipation.
By the mid 19th century Americas westwards expansion along with the growing Abolitionism Movement in the North, would provoke a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody American Civil War 1861 to 1865 Though the Union victory freed the nation 4 million slaves, the legacy of slavery continued to influence American from the tumultuous history years of reconstruction 1865 to 1877 to the Civil Rights Movements that emerges in the 1960s a century after emancipation.
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