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It started in 1671 when the first settlers arrived in America.
.... due to the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Captured men, women and children were brought from Africa to America on slave ships then sold....
It was a very profitable business.
A lot of the slaves helped building the new nation by working on plantation to harvest crops such as .....
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They weren't allowed to speak their own language or even use their real name because slaves owner wanted to eliminate their culture and identity.
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Most slaves had to work from sunrise to sunset. Some owners made their slaves work every day, others allowed slaves one day a month off and some allowed their slaves to have Sundays as a rest-day.
Slaves were allocated an area of the plantation for their living quarters.
On some plantations the owners would provide the slaves with housing,
usually small huts, on others the slaves had to build their own
homes. Living conditions were cramped with sometimes as many as ten
people sharing a hut.
[...], they were often ill-fitting and made of coarse material.
Slaves would spend their free time mending.....
Some plantation owners allowed their slaves a small plot of land to grow things tosupplement their diet.
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Most did not dare complain for fear of receiving a whipping or worse punishment.
Many slaves tried to free themselves either by revolts or by fleeing, but most of them were caught and killed. Those who fled went to Canada, thanks to the help of the Underground Railroad, freed slaves and white sympathisers.
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Declaration. This act made all slaves free. It was not at all a humanist decision though. Lincoln signed the act mainly because of the Civil War. The Northern and the Southern States fought in a war and the economy of the latter relied heavily on slavery. Texas was the last state to emancipate African Americans in 1865. Even though African Americans were freed, they were still second-class citizen. After slavery, black people experienced segregation.
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