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Make a Clarification question, Probing question and the follow up question out of this paragraph history of african americans african americans account for a large portion of the american population at the turn of the 21st century there were 36 million african americans in the south 2 million in new york city 1 million in chicago and around 500 000 to 1 million african americans living in detroit philadelphia and houston early history of african americans history of african americans began when 20 africans were dropped in the english colony of virginia in 1619. they worked as indentured servants who were bound to an employer for a limited number of years their population kept growing and reached in 760.179 most of them were directly imported from africa or were the children of slave mothers accounting for one-fifth of the population of the united states the blacks were documented into slavery in virginia in 1661 and all the english colonies by 1750 during that time they were considered an inferior race with heathen culture they were forced to work in the farmlands of the new world africans were sold as merchandise by european traders on slave ships across the atlantic ocean to the west indies the region of the north atlantic ocean and the caribbean at least one-sixth of them died during the journey due to shock disease and suicide slavery in america during the period of the 17th and 18th centuries africans and african-americans referring to those born in the new world were forced to work as slaves on tobacco rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast from the chesapeake bay colonies of maryland and virginia south to georgia eventually slavery became rooted in the south's huge cotton and sugar plantations legislation was passed by president thomas jefferson in 1807 to end the slave trade in america however it did nothing but boosted the domestic slave trade in the country black women were forced to conceive as early as age 13 and to give birth as often as possible there were still free black people making up one-tenth of the entire african-american population they originated with former indentured servants and their descendants some of them migrated from the west indies or were freed by their owners but while in the south they were subject to restrictions imposed on slaves in the north they were not allowed to vote own any property and travel freely they even faced the risks of being kidnapped and enslaved movements to end slavery abolitionists in britain and the united states in the 1840-1860 period developed large complex propaganda campaigns against slavery among the free blacks in the north were emerging african-american leaders in many states such as philadelphia boston and new york city they initially held national and state conventions in early 1830 however these people shared different opinions on how to deal with slavery and discrimination several leaders encouraged slaves to revolt and overthrow their masters while others thought they should enhance the economy and establish a modern black country in africa thus african americans founded liberia in west africa which foreshadowed the development of pan-african nationalism american civil war according to the missouri compromise of 1820 there must be an equal number of slave and free states but this was abrogated leading to slavery in all american territory in 1860 abraham lincoln was elected president of america on the anti-slavery platform of the new republican party at the beginning of 1861 a movement was launched in an attempt to liberate all the country's slaves it was the civil war however the initial goal of lincoln was not to abort slavery but to emancipate gradually with the federal government compensating the slaveholders for the loss of their property but in september of 1862 he issued the emancipation proclamation stating that all slaves were to be free making the civil war a war to end slavery african americans after the civil war after the civil.