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9/i5h colonialisfs in the new Amerjcan states such as Virginia imported slaves. Before the Civil War
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95% of black people jived in the South, comprising one fhird of the population. The reason_2_ithese
colonjajlrsts needeqg to jofs of workers was that the southern states had huge estates and plantations
downg color rice, and fobacco. At 和ist, hese imported slaves coujd be free after a specified period of
fime. 了hen, jifetime slavery became not onjy Commonplace but allowed by law in the south.
Jo keep 如is significant populjation under control, slave owners 3_their slaves. In addition to
physcal abuse and even murder slaves could be traded. Families were torn apart. Women slaves were
often 所ped. Chjjdren resulting from rapes were also treated as slaves. ltwas a 4_condition.
生 1860, Apraham Lincoln became president, unsupported py some of the southern states Which Te
功a 胡e norfh had pecome too controlling. They decided to leave the federal union and form a new nation
Calcq 匣e Confederate Sfatfes of America. In 1863, Lincoln wrote a document 5_the elmination of
5哲very an 0所cja/ war goal. Many blacks jojned the northern army as troops. Today, blacks in the U.S. are
Cajled / 和can Americans, and one of em, Barack Obama, is the present President
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