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A ship with dutch chattel slaves arrived in North America (Jamestown, Virginia). These blacks were sold/traded into servitude for supplies.
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Rhode Island was the first state that abolished the slave trade
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In 1808,the importation of slaves in the states was forbidden and trade was adolished. Even so, 270.000 slaves were smuggeld illegaly between 1808 and 1865
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Some states, like Louisiana, passed a legislation that prohibited the sale of children under the age of ten
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In 1850,347,525 out of 6,000,000 white people in the South were slave-owners.
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The number of slaves increased from 1.2 million in 1810 to 4 million in 1860.
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During the Civil War, slaves were emancipated. The Emancipation Proclamamtion was decklared by President Abraham Lincoln
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Even after the Emansipation Proclamation some of the slaves still remained in slavery. In December 1865,the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was adopted.
