400 years since slavery: a timeline of American history
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Atualizado: 25 mai 2023
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Created byChelsea Verlinden (CutiiXx)
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The first anti-miscegenation statute – prohibiting marriage between races – was written into law in MarylandThe Declaration of Independence, did not extend that right to slaves, Africans or African AmericansThe British-operated slave trade was one of the biggest businesses of the 18th centuryAbraham Lincoln -> civil war fought to keep America whole, not for abolition of slaveryThe recession of the late 19th century hit the US.African Americans were shut out of jobs in the North and opportunities during Jim Crow, more jobs became available -> >2 million southern African Americans migrated after the first world war.In the lead-up to the end of Jim Crow and the civil rights era, the fight continued.Edward E Baptist - The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism -> Slavery was gone but Jim Crow was alive. Almost all southern African Americans were shut out of the ballot box and the political power it could yieldPublication of The Case for Reparations- Ta-Nehisi Coates -> subject of how to settle the financial debts of 250 years of slavery -> more priority on political agendafirst captives were forced on to Virginia’s shores by a Dutchman
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