how long was slavery alive in America?

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I'm looking for a length of time...

Answer 1

Hard question to answer because of what defines slavery. The first Africans were brought to Jamestown in 1619, but they were indentured servants and actually earned their freedom after working for several years (like many white indentured servants).

African American slavery ended with the 13th Amendment in December 1865. IT DID NOT, I repeat, IT DID NOT end with the Emancipation Proclamation (which was in 1862, effective Jan 1, 1863). The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in Confederate territory. Lincoln had no Constitutional authority to ban slavery in the Union, and slavery continued in the Union states of Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland, and in parts of Virginia already under the control of the Union army.

BUT, even after 1865, Native Americans were used as slaves in California. Also, if you question is about the Americas, not just the United States of America, slavery began almost immediately after Columbus arrived in 1492. By 1493, Columbus had tens of thousands of Indian slaves and was even jailed by the Queen for being such a creul sob.

Answer 2

ANSWER: From about 1619 until 1865, people of African descent were legally enslaved within the boundaries of the present United States.
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History of slavery in the United States :

Slave sale in Easton, MarylandThe history of slavery in the United States began soon after Europeans first settled in what in 1776 became the United States. It ended in practice in 1863-65 with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation; it legally ended with the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865.
From about 1619 until 1865, people of African descent were legally enslaved within the boundaries of the present United States.

Indian slavery was widely practiced as well, especially in the 17th century. The economy of the early country was made possible in large part by the free labor afforded by slavery. Over a half million Africans were brought over from Africa during the slave trade, but because laws made the offspring of slaves as slaves, the slave population in the United States grew to 4 million by the 1860 Census.

Answer 3

That cannot really be answered in terms that you asked because native Americans took and kept slaves from prehistory - they certainly didn't build prisons.

The Emancipation Proclamation effectively ended slavery in USA 1865.

Answer 4

you may as well say from 1620 to 1865 or so. 1620 was the beginning of the Plymouth colony, and 1865 was the Emancipation Proclaimation

Answer 5

it existed until now. because there were reported of domestic violence of maids belonged to different races.

Answer 6

17th-20th centuries