Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans that existed in the United States of America in the 17th 18th and 19th centuries Slavery had been practiced in British America from early colonial days and was legal in all Thirteen Colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 it lasted in about half the states until 1865 when it was prohibited nationally by the Thirteenth Amendment As an economic system slavery was largely replaced by sharecropping and convict leasing. Effects on Southern economic development Washington as Farmer at Mount Vernon Star of the West Several hundred Bottle-nosed Dolphins live six months of the year (from mid-April through mid-October) in the Potomac Depicted here a mother with her young.
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