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Slavery started in what is now the United States in 1619. In that year, a load of slaves was dropped off in Jamestown, the first settlement in what is now the United States
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Congree legislates an end to bringing slaves into the states.
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The minstrel show, with it's black preformers, crude racial caricatures, and the song "jump jim crow" becomes apart of the american culture.
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The civil war ends bringing an end to slavery
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African American spirituals are published
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Southern states move to the "Jim Crow" system of segregation, passing laws to exclude African Americans from their everyday life. Radical violence and lynchings increase.
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The first blues song, included W.C. Handy's "Mephis Blues", arepublished as sheet music.
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