What percent of African Americans were slaves in the early eighteen hundreds?

Approximately ninety percent of African Americans were slaves in the early eighteen hundreds. African Americans were brought to America as slaves during the transatlantic slave trade, and they remained enslaved for over two hundred years. Slavery was finally abolished in the United States with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.

How did segregated schools provide a safe environment for African American students?

Why did slavery cause fierce struggle between the South and North?

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