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The AFL-CIO report, Immigrant Workers at Risk: The Urgent Need for Improved Workplace Safety and Health Policies and Programs SlaveryThe Beginning of Slavery The first Africans in America arrived as Indentured Servants via Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. From 1619 to about 1640, Africans could earn their freedom working as laborers and artisans for the European settlers. Africans could become free people and enjoy some of the liberties like other new settlers. Slave Trade The peoples inhabiting those African nations were known for their skills in agriculture, farming, and mining. The rising demand for sugar, coffee, cotton, and tobacco created a greater demand for slaves by other slave trading countries. Race The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 (citation 3 4 Will. IV c. 73) was an 1833 Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire. Main points of the Act All slaves under the age of six were to be freed immediately. Slaves over the age of six were to remain as part slave and part free for a further four years. In that time they would have to be paid a wage for the work they did in the quarter of the week when they were free. The government was to provide ￡20 million in compensation to the slave-owners who had lost their property. Civil War(1861-1865) The most important cause of the civil war is the southern slavery and northern antislavery. Certainly, there are also some social and economic factors. The election of Lincoln as a president was viewed by the south as a threat to slavery and ignited the war. 11 Southern states were involved in the civil war. Abraham Lincoln The Segregation of Black People Blake people should pay the driver in the front of the bus ,and enter the bus at the rear door, whiling sitting in the back of the bus. If the bus was full and more passengers get on ,they should give up their seat for the white people and stand . In most of the public spac