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EVOLUTION OF THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY

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Evolution of the Institution of Slavery

Outline

I. INTRODUCTION
A. The institution of slavery in colonial America from 1600.
B. The need for slaves and first slave arrivals in 1619 in the US.
II. DEVELOPMENT OF THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY FROM 1600
A. The acquisition, purchase, selling and reselling of slaves from Africa to

America.
B. Relationship between large plantations and the development of the institution

of slavery in the US.

C. The role of the institution of slavery to the economies of the colonial world

and the New World.

III. EXPANSION AND INDEPENDENCE OF SLAVERY IN 1740
A. Reduction of slave trade dueindependence of slavery institution in America.
B. Increase in African American families, leading to a collapse of slave trade in

the Trans-Atlantic Trade.

C. Ownership of property and animals by African American slaves.
IV. THE ROAD TO FREEDOM FROM SLAVERY IN THE NEW NATION FROM

1800
A. Participation of slaves in the American Revolution.
B. The effects of the American Revolution and declining tobacco economy on the

institution of slavery
C. Steps towards abolition of slavery in the North following the Declaration of

Independence.
V. THE END OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA FROM 1830.
A. Abolition of slavery institution following the Civil War.
B. Contribution of constitutional rule and the Kansas-Nebraska Act in ending

slavery.
C. The ultimate end ofthe slavery institution by President Lincoln and the

Thirteenth Amendment.
VI. CONCLUSION
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