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Slavery in America was the legal institution of enslaving human beings, mainly Africans and African Americans. Slavery existed in the United States from its founding in 1776 and became the...
- 13th Amendment
Slavery in America. Black Codes. The year after the...
- Rebellions
One of the earliest slave revolts in North America saw a...
- Nat Turner
Nathanial “Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was a black American...
- Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system of farming in which families, both...
- Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an escaped enslaved woman who became a...
- Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a struggle for justice and...
- Dred Scott Decision
In the Dred Scott case, or Dred Scott v. Sanford, the...
- Jamestown
The Jamestown Colony was the first permanent English...
- 13th Amendment
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South. Slavery was established throughout European colonization in the Americas.
African Americans - Slavery, Resistance, Abolition: Enslaved people played a major, though unwilling and generally unrewarded, role in laying the economic foundations of the United States—especially in the South. Black people also played a leading role in the development of Southern speech, folklore, music, dancing, and food ...
Four hundred years after enslaved Africans were first brought to Virginia, most Americans still don’t know the full story of slavery. The 1619 Project examines the legacy of slavery in...
How slavery flourished in the United States in charts and maps. On a grueling, six-week passage 110 Africans were transported from West Africa to Alabama on the Clotilda, the last slave ship...
Slavery in America: The Montgomery Slave Trade documents American slavery and Montgomery’s prominent role in the domestic slave trade. The report is part of EJI’s project focused on developing a more informed understanding of America’s racial history and how it relates to contemporary challenges.
Slavery was practiced in the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and helped propel the United States into the Civil War. Learn more about slavery and its abolition in America.
