Situation of African Americans 1800-1860 (15 feb 1800 anni – 28 apr 1860 anni)

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Growing number of slaves
especially in the South after
invention of the cotton gin

Slave trade abolished in 1806

Ongoing tension between North
and South over issue of slavery,
especially on slavery in new
states

By 1860 free African Americans in the North 1%
of population in the North, but 50% of Free
African Americans in the country.

Discrimination in White churches leads to
founding of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church

Free African Americans often replaced by
white immigrants or temporarily hired as
strikebreakers

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