Histororical Report on Race View Full Essay Historical Report on
Race By: Stephanie Copenhaver African Americans in the United
States have suffered immeasurably. It started in 1619 when the
first slaves were shipped to the North American colony of
Jamestown, Virginia to work for whites in fields producing
tobacco. For over 240 years they worked as slaves until 1865
when the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution brought an end
to the slavery. Many men and women were taken from their homes
and put on large ships and subjected to brutal and animal like
conditions. Many women were raped and even killed before they
got to the United States. Many were not fed or just water and
very minimal food. Many children were removed from their parents
and sold to whites to work in homes doing such things as
cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the white women and their
children. In 1831, a slave named Nat Turner led an uprising of
other slaves that killed sixty whites and then he was caught and
executed. When the Civil wa