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This is when the slave trade began in America. The Europeans kidnapped Africans and Arabs and traded them to people who needed manual labor to be done.
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The Frist Africans arrived in the British settlements on the Atlantic coast when they were tradd or sold for suppplies by a Dutch ship at Jamestown, Va.
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A system of slavery grew in British North America and statutory laws grew around it.
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This is when the Spaniards began the slave trade in west Africa.
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By this time there were 75,000 blacks living in American colonies.
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When South Carolina became harsher and working conditions deteriorated there was an alleged plot by slaves in New York City where 10 percent of the population was enslaved. The extent of the plot remains in dispute, but more then two dozen slaves were executed in the aftermath.
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This was the frist englishman to have the dubious distinction of being involved in the slave trade and they had nearly 200 ships at this time with a capacity to cram aboard 45,000 slaves.
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In America by the date of the Declaration of the Independence about one fifth of the population was enslaved.
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by this time there were more than 10 times the slaves as in 1725.
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By this date and ten years later there had been 400,000 slaves transported from Africa by British sailors.
