New England and the African slave trade.(Lesson Plan)

From: Social Education | Date: October 1, 2005 | Copyright information

In the United States, slavery is often thought of as a Southern institution. Many people today are unaware of the extent of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth century North, particularly New England. Long thought of as the birthplace of the anti-slavery movement, New England has a more complex history of slavery and slave trading than many realize.

In the 400 years after Columbus first sailed to the New World, some 12 million Africans were brought to the Americas as slaves. About 500,000 of these people came to mainland North America, what is now the United States. The ...

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