nov 2, 1783 - Enslaved African Americans after the war
Description:
- Most colonists considered this does not fit the Revolutaionary ideals, so freed the slaves- BUT this changed when the cotton gin was invented in 1793
- The South considered slaves economically important to them
- By the 1830s, southereners began to find religious and political justification for slavery
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Date:
nov 2, 1783
Now
~ 242 years ago