Sunday, August 7, 2011

A few questions about slavery in North America?

Slavery began in the early 1600s with native americans and eventually african americans. Slavery was suppose to end with the Emancipation Proclamation, but since Louisiana seceded they didn't follow it. So officially slavery was ended at the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865 with the 13th Amendment. There was over 40,000 slaves in the New Orleans area.

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