The Long Shadow Of Slavery
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Dred Scott Decision The Supreme Court rules that American-born slaves have no rights under Constitution. U.S. price for a slave: about $500.
1861-65
The Civil War Abolitionist fever builds, and the South secedes. In 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in Confederate states.
Dec. 18, 1865
13th Amendment The states ratify constitutional amendment guaranteeing that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude. . .shall exist."
Slaves leaving (AFRICA): 13,000,000 Slaves arriving: West Indies 4,000,000 Brazil 4,000,000 Spanish Empire* 2,500,000 N. America, U.S. 500,000 Europe 200,000VERN E. SMITH and ALLISON SAMUELS
© 1997
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