Slavery

__//**What is Slavery:**//__ Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work.

__//**Where did Slaves come from:**//__ Most American slave came from Africa.

__//**What work did slaves do:**//__ Slaves were required to do almost every task you could imagine. These task include but are not limited to: picking cotton, harvesting sugar cane, tobacco and coffee, working in the dairy, weaving, washing clothes, cooking, carpentry, and building railroads.

Slaves were treated very poorly. They were considered 3/4 of a person when they should be 4/4. They were faced with whippings, execution, and sexual abuse. Slaves also were not allowed to get an education.
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__//**How did Slavery end:**//__ With the victory of the Civil War, slavery was abolished in the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment the the Constitution, formally outlawed slavery.

__//**How did slavery cause the Civil War;**//__ Abraham Lincoln ran for president with the promise of no new slave states. The South then broke away to form the Confederacy. This caused the Civil War.

The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion. The Proclamation also, gave those freed the right to enroll into paid service of the U.S forces.
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__//**Bibliography:**//__ en.wikipedia.org///wiki/Treatment_of_slaves_in_the_United_States// //en.wikipedia.org///wiki/slavery_in_the_United_States //en.wikipedia.org///wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation