In America, early in the seventeenth century, the first slaves were traded. These people, kidnapped from their families in Africa, were sold for profit to wealthy settlers in the 'New World'. They were much cheaper than servants and a very profitable 'cargo' for the slave traders. Take our history quiz now!
Owners' Rights
The Black Codes
The Cotton Laws
The Negro Rules
African Embassy
Citizen's Council
Freedmen's Bureau
Plantation Workers' Hostel
Allowed them to attend university
Gave them the vote
Let them marry a white person
Let them stand for President
TCrop tenants
Freegrowers
Sharecroppers
Splitcroppers
Diversification
Partition
Propagation
Segregation
Dan Hawk Laws
Jim Crow Laws
Sam Raven Laws
Tom Finch Laws
Citizens
Civil
Coloured
Committee
Civil defence
Civil disobedience
Civil rights
Civil servants
Chicago
New York
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Booker T. Washington
Charles Sumner
Stokely Carmichael
W. E. B. Du Bois