The arrival of the first American laborers to the English colony of Virginia in 1619 began the tragic history of slavery in North America. By 1776 when Americans fought for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", slavery had already prevailed in their country for more than a hundred and fifty years. In the years that followed the first colonizers, slavery paced the growth of the U.S.; it was the rise of America. The territory of …showed first 75 words of 3857 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3857 total…world. There is one thing that puzzles me though, the Civil War was never really about slavery, slavery was one thing that was influenced positively by the war. Lincoln on countless occasion asserts this, it was first the Union than the great injustice of slavery. The founding fathers would have never believed this day to come, a land with freedom eventually ringing in every corner and crack in the region. <Tab/>