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Slavery
During the American Revolution the majority of the population was African American slaves. Slavery was a major part of the 18th Century colonial times, and had to do with most portions of everyday life. Blacks were used for a variety of things during the colonial period, and there were many issues that arose regarding the usage of slaves. The North and the South had different views of slavery although it existed in both regions. Slavery became a topic when concerning the constitution and our pursuit of freedom in the United States.
Slavery was used for many different reasons in North America. It was mainly used to take the burden or dirty-work off the hands of the white people. “There were Africans taken as slaves to cultivate rice, sugar, and tobacco” (America Past and Present, 73). Slave labor was required for doing those things. These things being extreme labor, the whites did not want to do them, so they gave that assignment to the blacks. As a result, the trend......

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