Let's Celebrate Emancipation Day & Juneteenth

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Africans are brought to America to be sold as slaves How Did Slavery Begin in America Traders brought the first African slaves to the American colonies in 1619 As time passed more and more free black Africans were captured and shipped across the ocean in chains Those who survived were sold in slave markets If enslaved people later had children they were slaves too These children were often taken away from their parents and sold 4