Harriet Tubman: Freed Slave, Abolitionist, And Legend
Harriet Tubman: Freed Slave, Abolitionist, and Legend
By:
Aisha Elwadie
WRAC 140 Section 006
Women In America
Dr. Meija
9 October 2006
Harriet Tubman: Freed Slave, Abolitionist, and Legend
Slavery is a situation in which someone is a servant of another person. The first Africans to be brought to North America landed in Virginia in 1619. From 1619 until 1865 around half a million slaves were brought from Africa, to create what was latter known as the "slave trade". The slave trade helped with economic growth in the newly founded colonies. At first the slaves played the role of indentured servants through signed contracts for long periods of time. The first British colonists in Carolina introduced African slavery, as it is known now, into the colony in 1670, the year the colony was founded, and slavery spread rapidly throughout the Southern colonies The slaves arrived in present day South Carolina as part of the San Miguel de Gualdape colony. Northerners also......
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