• Slavery in the U.S.A occurred during the 18th and 19th centuries in British America, and it was firmly established when the Declaration of Independence of the United States was signed.

• In the north of America slavery was illegal, while in the South was legal.

• One owner could have the slaves they wanted to, and the mayority of the slaves were black people, who live in South America.

Slavery is bad, but in children is much worse. In these pictures we can see how children with only eight years carry stones most heavy that its weight.

A girl five years carrying a bucket with a huge shovel and not only that she has no strength to lift it, because as we can see they are very thin and malnourished, working under the sun and have almost no water to drink. So was slavery of children in USA and more worse works like those…

CHILD SLAVES

children carrying heavy stones children working in a dirt field in full sun

girl carrying a bucket with a big shovel

eight year olds child with guns and shotguns

• Most forms of slavery share the following characteristics:

1- Slaves were obliged to live their lives in perpetual service to their master, an obligation that only the master (or the state) can dissolve.

2- Slaves are under the complete power of their masters, although the state or community may impose certain restrictions upon the master's treatment of the slave

3- Slaves were property, which may be sold or passed along as an inheritance at the master's discretion.

4- The condition of slavery is transmitted from parent to child.

Slavery trade

• The outbreak of the Civil War forever changed the future of the American nation.

• Many slaves escaped to the North in the early years of the war, and several Union generals established abolitionist policies in the land Southern land that they conquered.

• On September 22, 1862, following the dramatic Union victory at Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln presented the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.