In
the early stages of a new land not yet free from England, boats showed
up in the colonies with Black people from other countries unloaded.
imprisoned on plantations, forced to work in fields as slaves and
brutalized by overlords.
Plantation owners became wealthy with
captive labor. For hundreds of years, slaves were treated with utter
disregard for basic human rights and liberty: They were disposable
property.
American Colonies
Before the outbreak of the American Revolution (1775 – 1783) tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. England was like an overlord strangling colonists with the power of the crown: Slavery and new and unpopular taxes led to the Colonists breaking with the Monarchy. On July 4, 1776, the Colonists presented the Declaration of Dependence. That resulted in the American Revolution.
Freedom from Slavery
After the American Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783), on May 29, 1790, the last of the original 13 colonies became the United States.
Our U.S. Constitution was ratified as law. Good men stood up at a time when it was unpopular and dangerous. These men objected to slavery.
Those were words that sparked the Civil War in the Republic for the United States of America.
The Democrat Party was founded on January 8, 1828,
The Republican Party was established in the 1850s.
The Civil War (1861-1865) was a bloody battle to resolve the issue of slavery in the United States. Slavery that had been “imported” by England and rejected by the Colonists.
The Democrats aka the Confederates were for slavery.
The Union aka Republicans were against slavery.
According to the American Battlefield Trust, “The human cost was beyond anybody's expectations. Bloodshed of that magnitude has not been equaled since -- by any other American conflict. “...620,000 soldiers died. As a percent of the population, today that number might be six million.” Black men who were free or runaways joined the Union’s fight to outlaw slavery and set existing slaves free from further bondage.///