Colonial America
Slaves come to North America
African slaves first came to the North American mainland in 1526 when a Spanish explorer tried to colonize some land in what historians believe was South Carolina. He brought with him 500 Spanish settlers and 100 African slaves from Haiti (an island in the West Indies). The expedition's leader soon died, the slaves...
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