Category: American History
Africans (people from Africa) were taken to America and sold as slaves. The transatlantic slave trade forcibly brought millions of Africans to the Americas beginning in the early 1600s.
Enslaved people were denied basic human rights and forced to work without pay, primarily on Southern plantations. Slavery was not abolished until the 13th Amendment in 1865.
The legacy of slavery is one of the most significant chapters in American history, leading to the Civil War and the ongoing struggle for racial equality.
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