Important Events In African American History

African American history plays a major part in American history. Not because any specific reason, but African Americans had to undergo a great deal as a race. The 1600s was presumably the most talked about period in African American history, which is when slavery was developed through this era African Americans endured slavery up until the 1800s. Of course there are important people or important events that we learned about in African American history, but some of the most important things are still a mystery to us. Slavery in American began when Africans were brought to the Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. It is said that slavery existed in Africa from the earliest known history of Africa. “Egyptians enslaved different groups of people— Semitic, Mediterranean, and Nubian blacks.” (Franklin,2008) We also see this can be accurate because of stories that we also hear in the Bible about Egyptians. Back in the day slavery was prominently in the Muslim society, and just like slavery in America females were purchased, men were used as soldiers, craftsmen, handymen and miners and women where bought to be …show more content…
Many think these revolts resulted in the rise of the abolition movement. Of course we know that slavery in the North was vastly different from that of the South, while abolition in the North was growing, the South remained the same. The abolition movement in the North was led by free blacks such as Fredrick Douglas and white supporters such as William Lloyd Garrison. In this era the Underground Railroad was formed. In the 1780s freed slaves of the North and whites that were antislavery began helping blacks escape from plantations in the South. This grew widely in the 1800s where it is said the almost 100,000 slaves were able to escape, Harriet Tubman was considered the conductor of the Underground Rail and was praised for