Pablo Colon
Source 1
Notes:English
Source:history.com/articles/slavery
U.S History (April 25, 2024)
Slavery In America

Summary/ Main Idea:
This article talks about slavery and slavery throughout the years/centuries. Specifically talks
about how slaves were treated and lived, and what they had to go through. It also talked about
laws and everything from the start. (In America) (Also Includes transportation) (Fields they
mostly worked on).

This article relates to my research topic because my research topic is about slavery from the
beginning to the end.

Info I might use:
1“Many thought the starting point to slavery in America to be 1619, when white lion brought 20
enslaved Africans ashore in the British colony Jamestown, Virginia.”

2”Throughout the 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to enslaved Africans
as cheaper existing estimates establish that Europeans and American slave traders transported
nearly 12.5 million enslaved Africans to the Americans.”

3”In the 17th and 18th centuries, enslaved Africans worked mainly on tobacco, rice and indigo
plantations.”

Source 2
Website: aaihs.org/a-history
Author: Calvin Schermerhorn (October, 15, 2018)
Title: A history of Slavery In The United States

Summary/Main Idea: This article focuses more on law and rules, like Emancipation,
Abolishment, and laws against slaves too or colored like segregation and separation.

This article relates to my research topic since it talks more politically about slavery and laws and
bypasses that were given to slaves.

Info I might use:
1” In 1662, The children of enslaved women legally became slaves”.

2”Before the rise of the American Revolution, the first debates to abolish Slavery emerged”.

3”Black and white abolitionists contributed to the enactment of new legislation, gradually
abolishing Slavery in some northern states such as Vermont and Pennsylvania.”

3”However, these laws emancipated only the newly born children of enslaved women.”

4”After the end of the American Revolutionary War, Slavery was maintained in the new states.”

Source 3
Website: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/slavery
Author: National Museum of African American History and Culture (
No Date Intact)
Title: From Freedom To Slavery

Summary/ Main Idea: The main idea of this article is how and what laws helped and benefitted
slaves. It shows laws and what slaves were limited to and later on compared it to when slaves
were able and free/ emancipated.

This article relates to my research topic by talking about slaves being able to do what a normal
person can do. From slaves to civilians and how their struggle and how they got to be free.

Info I might use:
1”The end of the civil war in 1865 ushered in major changes in the u.s, including the passage of
the thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime”.

2”Much of U.S. History, however, is contextualized by the system of slavery that was imposed
on African Americans for 250 years.”

3”One such effort was congress’s establishment of the united states of refugees, freedmen, and
abandoned Lands on march 3,1865”.

4”Helped legalize marriages; and assisted African American Soldiers and Sailors in securing
backpay, enlistment, bounties, and pensions”.

5”Freedmen’s schools were not just for children. Since learning to read and write while enslaved
had been illegal, most newly freed adults were also eager for an education.”

Source 4
Website: gilderlehman.org/history-resources
Author: Ira Berllin ( No date Intact )
Title: The Origins Of Slavery

Summary/ Main Idea:
The main idea of this article is migration and movement of african americans and slave traders
and their origins.

This relates to my article by showing movements (forced or not) made by the african americans
and how slaves entered the united states and when and from where.

Info I might use:
1”African American life in the united states has been framed by migrations, forced and free.A
forced migration from Africa the transatlantic slave trade carried black people to the Americas”.

2” African American life is again being transformed by another migration, this time a global one,
as people of African descent from all parts of the word enter the United states”.

3”The transatlantic slave trade had it’s beginning in the middle of the fifthteenth century when
portuguese ships sailed down the west african coast. The intention was to trade for gold and
spices , but the voyagers found another even more valuable commodity: human beings”.

Source 5
Website: jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu
Author: Jim Crow Museum (No date intact)
Title: Slavery IN America

Summary/ Main idea: The main idea of this article is that it shows time and dates of laws that
had to do with abolishment or emancipation, or anything that has to do with slavery including a
timeline.

This relates to my article by showing laws and dates how slaves were or were going to be free
or how slaves became slaves and punishments.
Info I might use:

“ A Virginia law passed in 1662 stated that the status of the mother determined if a black child
would be enslaved. Increasingly harsh and restrictive laws were passed over the next 40 years,
culminating in the Virginia slave codes of 1705”.

1816 Dec 28” The American Colonization society was founded to transport freeborn black
people and emancipated enslaved people to Africa, leading to the creation of a colony that
became the republic of Liberia in 1847”.

“The 13th Amendment to the United States constitution
was ratified, outlawing slavery”.

1863 Jan 1 ¨President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made it
clear that a union victory in the civil war would mean the end of slavery in the united states¨.

References:

Source 1: U.S. History. (2024, April 25). Slavery in America. https://www.history.com/articles/slavery

Source 2: Schermerhorn, C. (2018, October 15). A History of Slavery in the United States. African American Intellectual History Society. https://www.aaihs.org/a-history-of-slavery-in-the-united-states/

Source 3: National Museum of African American History and Culture. (n.d.). From Freedom to Slavery. Smithsonian Institution. https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/slavery

Source 4: Berlin, I. (n.d.). The Origins of Slavery. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/origins-slavery

Source  5: Jim Crow Museum. (n.d.). Slavery in America. Ferris State University. https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/timeline/slavery.htm

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2.Summarizing and simplicity
For each source I explained the main idea and got straight to the point.

3. Keeping citations organized
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