The early 1600's black slave trade began in Jamestown, Virginia. Slavery gradually spread to all the colonies in 1618. It began to grow rapidly in the southern colonies, where slaves could be used as Field hands' in the cultivation of tobacco, rice, and indigo.
After the war, slavery became more and more unpopular because people started to see them as humans not property. By 1804, seven of the northern colonies had done away with slavery, and the freeing of slaves, which was common in Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.
Just as slavery seemed to be dying down, it was established by a new rebirth in the South. A new demand for cotton and the introduction of improved machinery, such as the cotton gin transformed the southern states into the greatest cotton growing in the world. Cotton production jumped from 178,00 bales in 1810, to 3,841,000 bales in 1860. This increase required a whole army of new workers. Within 50 years the number of slaves rose to about from 1,190,000 to almost 400,000. In 1854, many people in the North and West began to except that the fact of slavery was wrong. The slave countries included Czechoslovakia, and Poland in Central Europe, Bulgara, and Yugoslave in Southern Europe and the Soviet union which lies partly in Eastern Europe and partly in Asia because it was cheap labor. Slavery ended around 1865, after the Civil War.
Bibliography
http://www.history.Rochester./edu/class/ugrr/hor1.html
http://www.encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/civilwar/railroad.html
" The Road To Freedom" By: James McCague Cr. 1972
