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Slaves in Industry
American history in the 19th century revolved around the controversy of slavery. As early as 1784, there were blacks living, as free men in the north, but the south grew far more limited to their slavery-run economy. These free and enslaved blacks had many complaints, limitations, successes, and opportunities in this shaky era of our nation's past. The people and the events of the 1800's would change America forever.
The first Africans to land on American soil arrived in Virginia in 1619. In Europe, the Portuguese and the Dutch had already been dealing in the African slave trade, traveling back and forth across the Atlantic for over half a century. Shortly afterward the French and the British took over this trade industry. America was growing and was in need of cheap labor for economic, geographic, social and agricultural reasons, especially in the southern states. In the south, the climate and soil was very helpful to farming and the plantation owners needed......

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