400 Years of Slavery in the United States • FamilySearch
400 Years of Slavery in the United States • FamilySearch
2019 marks 400 years since enslaved Africans landed in colonial Virginia. Learn about the transatlantic slave trade in mainland North America.
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The U.S.A. has only been a country for 243 years. This article says we've had 400 years of slavery. How can a country have slavery if it wasn't a country yet? It makes it sound as if we as a nation controlled slavery at a time when there was no government to control it.
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The United States is the legal successor to the 13 British Colonies. The founding date of the United States was somewhere between 1776 (Declaration of Independence) and 1789 (ratification of the current Constitution) depending on which definition you prefer. But the colonies it succeeded can be dated as far back to the foundation of Virginia in 1607. In any case, slavery can still exist without a government.
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If you use your own start date of 1619 to signify the start of the slave trade, to its end in 1865 via the 13th amendment, that equals 246 years of slavery.
White Christians we slaves to North African Muslims for 250 years.
I'd say we're about even…..
How about we just say that slavery is terrible, it's something that has happened to every race on the planet at one time or another, and we should just take it as lesson learned, and MOVE ON!0
