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Slavery

Expository Essay
By Matt Alexander

My essay will be on the racism and slavery in America. I will talk about how slavery began, the treatment of the slaves, the tensions between the colonies and the people, and what lead to the Civil War.

The first colonies to arrive in North America had some problems with the Natives. During a few battles between the Natives and Colonists, some of the Natives captured a few white men and used them as slaves which gave the colonists the idea of slavery. The first African slaves arrived in North America as part of the San Miguel de Gualdape colony somewhere around the Winyah Bay area of South Carolina in 1526.

The colonists traded rum and other ...

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from the United States in 1861 so they could have slaves, and formed the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy. The United States then declared themselves as the Union and this led to the Civil War.

The Civil War lasted four years, 1861 through 1865. Victory in the North on December 18, 1865 followed the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment which led to the end of slavery in the United ...

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Added: 5/25/2011 01:39:42 PM
Submitted By: o0scottie0o
Category: American History
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 278
Pages: 2

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