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  2. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As a result of centuries of slavery and such relationships, DNA studies have shown that the vast majority of African Americans also have historic European ancestry, generally through paternal lines. [ 218 ] [ 219 ] The average Black American genome is roughly 20-25% European, [ 220 ] and it is estimated that as much as one third of their Y ...

  3. Slave trade in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of the domestic slave trade can very clumsily be divided into three major periods: 1776 to 1808: This period began with the Declaration of Independence and ended when the importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean was prohibited under federal law in 1808; the importation of slaves was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed ...

  4. Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of African-American history, the part of history that deals with African Americans. Europeans arrived in what would become the present day United States of America on August 9, 1526. With them, they brought families from Africa that they had captured and enslaved with intentions of establishing themselves and future ...

  5. Slavery in the colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in Slavery. New York: Pantheon, 1990. Jewett, Clayton E. and John O. Allen; Slavery in the South: A State-By-State History. (Greenwood Press, 2004) Levine, Lawrence W. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

  6. Middle Passage - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [1] were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods (first side of the triangle), which were then traded for slaves with rulers of African states ...

  7. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    However some limited cases of slavery continued until the 17th century in some of France's Mediterranean harbours in Provence, as well as until the 18th century in some of France's overseas territories. [22] Most aspects of serfdom are also eliminated de facto between 1315 and 1318. [23] 1318 France: King Philip V abolishes serfdom in his ...

  8. Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    Slavery was prevalent in many parts of Africa for many centuries before the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade. [79] Slavery was an important part of the economic structure of Africa although its relative importance and the role and treatment of enslaved people varied considerably by society. [80]

  9. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Chattel slavery was established throughout the Western Hemisphere ("New World") during the era of European colonization.During the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), the rebelling states, also known as the Thirteen Colonies, limited or banned the importation of new slaves in the Atlantic Slave Trade and states split into slave and free states, when some of the rebelling states began to ...