Agriculture is still the #1 industry in North Dakota's economy. The state typically leads the nation in over a dozen crops. Production agriculture is an important part of the North Dakota economy. 1  North Dakota continues to work to diversify its agricultural fabric by targeting the development of value added agriculture. Definition of Value Added Agriculture.
Brazil was the last American nation to abolish slavery, on 13 May, 1888. At the time Rio represented the largest urban concentration of slaves since the end of the Roman empire, more than 40% of the population, almost a complete city in irons.
Slavery was officially abolished in the United States in  1865 (by the enactment of the 13th Amendment to the  Constitution), although many states abolished slavery for  th â¦ emselves at various dates between 1777 and 1864 and the  transport of new slaves from Africa to the US was stopped as early  as 1808.owever the paperwork was not submitted to the Federal government. This was discovered by a professor who watched the movie Lincoln at the end of 2012, and he ensured that in 2013 the paperwork was finally completed, so the official abolishing of slavery by the state Mississippi was in 2013.