Slavery was widely practiced throughout the ancient world, and in the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, which helped propel the United States into the Civil War.
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Slavery in America was the legal institution of enslaving human beings, mainly Africans and African Americans. Slavery started in America since before its founding in 1776 and became the main cause behind the country’s bloody Civil War. Slavery officially ended in America with the passage of the 13th Amendment following the Civil War’s end in 1865.
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Historians and experts examine the American system of racialized slavery and the hypocrisy it relied on to function.
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After Charles I of Spain signed an edict launching the transatlantic slave trade, human cargo on transatlantic voyages spiked nearly tenfold.
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