unit8 制药一班王炜清.pptxVIP

Pre-reading Text analysis Language points Slavery, a sensitive word in America,began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries.By the mid-19th century, Americas westward expansion, along with a growing abolition movement in the North, would provoke a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody American Civil War (1861-65). Though the Union victory free