African Americans

Africans were first "imported" in America to work in the plantations of the colonies. In 1619, 19 slaves were brought from Africa to Virginia. In 1790 there were 700,000 slaves in the USA. Everyone knows about slavery in America, or at least everyone knows that there used to be slaves. Slavery led to the Civil War between pro-slavery States and against slavery States.

I found this very interesting website about slavery in Connecticut. Slavery was especially known in the Southern States, not that much on the Northern States, so it is interesting to have a point of view of the story more up north. Here is the link to the website. The website offers a great deal of stories about slavery and videos about different topics surrounding slavery. And it is affiliated to Yale University (one of the Ivy League universities) so it is an academic website.

The second website I found was about the African American representatives in Congress and the importance of race in the eyes of African Americans. This was quite interesting and has a nice bibliography at the end, if anyone wants to know more about the subject. It's interesting to see that Black people do prefer to be represented in Congress by someone Black, even though it is not their only criteria of vote. Let's say that if the representative has good ideas and is black, it's a nice bonus for them.