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What century did african american slavery start?

Im doing a history project and I know nothing about african american slavery, does anyone know when it started for african americans?

The Spanish and Portuguese began transporting slaves to South America in the 16th century. The english began transporting slaves into their colonies in the 17th century.

There were free black people in the early colonies as well as slaves. A woman called Mary Johnson may have been the first African-american. She arrived in Virginia some time before 1620 as the maid of a Virginia planter. Johnson and her husband were indentured servants, and once they earned their freedom, they acquired a 250-acre farm and five indentured servants of their own. In 'America's Women' Gail Collins writes:

'By the mid-seventeenth century, a free black population had begun to emerge in both the North and the South. African american women, who weren't bound by the same social constraints as white women, frequently set up their own businesses, running boarding-houses, hair salons, or restaurants. Catering was a particularly popular career, as was trading.

In Charleston, South Carolina, black women took over the local market, selling vegetables, chickens, and other produce they acquired from the growing population of slaves, who generally had small plots of land beside their cabins. The city came to depend on the women for its supply of fresh food, and whites complained long and loud about the power and independence of the trading women. In 1686, South Carolina passed a law prohibiting the the purchase of good sfrom slaves, but it had little effect. A half century later, Charleston officials were still complaining about the "exorbitant price" that black women charged for "many articles necessary for the support of the inhabitants".

The relative openness of life for African Americans only lasted while the black population was small - in the mid-seventeenth century about 300 black Virginians lived among 15,000 whites. As the number of slaves grew, white Americans began self-consciously marking the differences between the races. White servants complained about being forced to work with blacks, and legislatures passed laws making it more difficult for them to gain their freedom, acquire property, or intermarry. Blacks and whites had married legally in many of the early settlements, and interracial love affairs were common. In Virginia, officials began requiring any white woman who had an illegitimate child with a a black man to pay a fine of 15 pounds or spend five years in indentured service. In 1662, Virginia legislatures gave white masters free rein to molest their female slaves by declaring that children of slave women were slaves for life, no matter who their fathers were.'

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