How long were black slaves in america?

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries. read more

Slavery in America started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. Throughout the 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants, who were mostly poor Europeans. read more

Most of these African slaves were shipped across the Atlantic where many were worked to death in the Caribbean or in South America, and were still worked hard in the American south, and this continued until the 1800s with either slave revolts or a civil war ending slavery in those countries. read more