As the population constantly increased in the colonies during the 1600's, so did the demand for slavery especially in the southern colonies where the big plantations were. ... On the eve of the Civil War, the ration was one in four; and slave owners probably made up less than a third of southern whites. ... By the American Revolution, 20 percent of the overall population in the thirteen colonies was of African descent. ... The economic realities of the southern colonies, however, perpetuated the institution, which was first legalized in Massachusetts in 1641. ...

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The first African brought to the English colonies in North America came on a Dutch privateer that landed at Jamestown, Virginia, in August 1619. ... Soon may colonies started importing African slaves. ... Supreme Court, directed a carefully constructed legal campaign against Southern segregation laws. ... By the 1960's several Southern states still had no black students enrolled in public schools with white students. ... The Brown decision sparked a host of other actions in the Southern civil rights movement. ...

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Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. In Henry's time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles of sand. Today we know t...

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