Black History
Black History Month was created to focus attention on the contributions of African Americans to the United States. It honors all Black people from all periods of U.S. history, from the enslaved people first brought over from Africa in the early 17th century to African Americans living in the United States today.https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/history/black-history-month/
Black History Month was created to focus attention on the contributions of African Americans to the United States. It honors all Black people from all periods of U.S. history, from the enslaved people first brought over from Africa in the early 17th century to African Americans living in the United States today.https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/history/black-history-month/
1600s
“Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work as indentured servants and labor in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton.”
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery#section_2
Late 1700’s to the Civil War
“The Underground Railroad was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the South.”
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/underground-railroad
