Carolina was the colony that was populated by the first mass influx of slaves.
Slavery in the colonial area developed from complex factors. Slavery was driven by Europe's American colonies' need for labor, particularly for the labor-intensive plantation economies of the sugar colonies in the Caribbean, operated by Great Britain, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic.
Most slaves were brought or kidnapped to the Thirteen British colonies.
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham.
