Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century

CHAPTER XXIX

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The Negro In America and the Slavery Conflict

The Negro in America--The First Cargo--Beginning of the Slave Traffic--As a Laborer--Increase in Numbers--Slavery; its Different Character in Different States--Political Disturbances--Agitation and Agitators--John Brown--War and How it Emancipated the Slave--The Free Negro--His Rapid Progress 425