The Dramatic story of Black Slavery in America from the first arrival of African slaves at Jamestown in 1619 to the Civil War and the ratification of the 15th Amendment in 1870 which prohibits the government from denying a citizen the vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (i.e., slavery) - the third of the Reconstruction Amendments which finally ended the legitimacy of Slavery in the United States. - 1619 Virginia - The First African Slaves arrive.
- 18th Century Colonial America and Slavery under the rule of the British Empire.
- Slavery in the United States after the Revolution.
- Nat Turner s Rebellion, 1831.
- Abolition from the North grows. The Civil War.
- Emancipation Proclamation. Aftermath of the Civil War and new freedom.
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