Slavery in American History
Introduction Starting in the seventeenth century, European settlers in the United States began deploying enslaved Africans as workforce because they were less expensive and more available than indentured servants (mostly poorer Europeans). Enslavement flourished throughout colonial America after 1619, when a Dutch ship transporting Twenty Africans landed at the British settlement of Jamestown, Virginia (History.com ... Read More
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