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.
On March 3, 1807, President Thomas Jefferson signed into act a bill approved by Congress the day before âto prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States.â Three weeks later, on the 25th, the British House of Lords passed an Act for the Abolition of The Slave Trade. In neither country did the new legislations imply the immediate end of the international slave trade.