The Abolishment Of Slavery In The United States

Before 1765, the English importers alone captured and sent over three million Africans into the slave trade - the transportation and sell of humans into slavery, to the Americas. By 1807, the South accumulated a population of over four million African slaves, individuals known as property for inhumane labour whom have no rights. Consequently, this enlarge the divide between the North, whom were anti-slavery, and the South. It was not until The Act of 1807 that slave trade was abolished, yet it took another half a century to abolish slavery threw the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment.

In 1641, slavery was legalized due to the lack of workforce, consequently becoming a vital aspect in the southern colonies’ agricultural economy. Slaves were imported through the slave trade, or otherwise known as the Triangular Trade. Africans were obtained in three stages ; stage one - threw violence and traded goods were exchanged for lives in Africa , stage two - Africans were shipped in slave ships from Africa to the Americas, and stage three - returned to one of the Americas for slave labour.
On September 2nd 1862, after the bloodshed victory of the Union victory at Antietam, President Lincoln made an official abolishment of slavery in the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Stated in the Emancipation “Slaves within any state, or designated state ... shall be then, thenceforth forever free.” Thomas, Peter Standford. "The Tragedy of the Negro in America: A Condensed History of the Enslavement in the United States of America." . The Emancipation Proclamation took action on January 1, 1863, and freed three million black slaves in the rebellion states. In 1865, the Union who the Civil War, and later on that same year the 13th amendment officially abolished