Slavery in America

Slavery

a. The first English colony in North America, Virginia, first imported Africans in 1619, a practice established in the Spanish colonies as early as the 1560s, beginning the era of slavery.

b. Africa

c. The Spanish

d. The Jim Crow Laws

e. It helps us to understand why the white men despised the blacks, and why were maids often blacks.

The Civil Wars

a. Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia

b. Abraham Lincoln

c. It was fought because The Northern territory wanted to free the slaves while the Southern territory did not.

d. 1861 – 1865

e. Slavery for the Confederacy's 3.5 million blacks effectively ended when Union armies arrived; they were nearly all freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

f. It is related from the case of Tom Robinson.

Jim Crow Laws

a. Jim Crow is not actually a person, but the subject of a song performed by Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice, a white man who performed in blackface.

b. The Jim Crow Laws separated black from white men in doing activities.

c. The Blacks were not satisfied as they expected equal rights between all the people in America.

d. The Jim Crow Laws are seen in the novel as the black and white men used different churches in Maycomb County.