Slavery In America

Slavery has been around for many years in America and was a big issue. This was a legal institution for more than a Century in North America until the United States was founded in 1776. Slavery continued mostly down South until the 13th Amendment was added to the Constitution in 1865. Virginia was the first English colony in North America to import slaves in 1619. Most slaves were black and had white owners. Native Americans and free blacks also owned slaves as well. There were a small number of white slaves also. There was mostly Slavery spread in the areas where there was good-quality soil for growing crops. Most of the slaveholders were in the southern part of the United States. Slaves would work on the plantations meanwhile being watched by managerial class called overseers which were usually white men. From the 16th to the 19th centuries about 12 million African slaves were shipped to the Americas. Of those 12 million about 645,000 were brought to what is now known as the United States. By the 1860 United States Census, the slave population grew to about 4 million in the United States. This was a very big political issue in politics of the United States from the 1770s to the 1860s.