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Slavery arrived in North America along side the Spanish and English colonists of the 17th and 18th centuries, with an estimated 645,000 Africans imported during the more than 250 years the institution was legal. But slavery never existed without controversy. The British colony of Georgia actually banned slavery from 1735 to 1750, although it remained legal in the other 12 colonies. After the American Revolution, northern states one by one passed emancipation laws, and the sectional divide began to open as the South became increasingly committed to slavery. Once called a “necessary evil” by Thomas Jefferson, proponents of slavery increasingly switched their rhetoric to one that described slavery as a benevolent Christian institution that benefited all parties involved: slaves, slave owners, and non-slave holding whites. The number of slaves compared to number of free blacks varied greatly from state to state in the southern states. In 1860, for example, both Virginia and Mississippi had in excess of 400,000 slaves, but the Virginia population also included more than 58,000 free blacks, as opposed to only 773 in Mississippi. In 1860, South Carolina was the only state to have a majority slave population, yet in all southern states slavery served as the foundation for their socioeconomic and political order.
Descubrimiento de América es la denominación que recibe el acontecimiento histórico acaecido el 12 de octubre de 1492, consistente en la llegada a América de una expedición española dirigida por Cristóbal Colón por mandato de los Reyes Católicos, Isabel de Castilla y Fernando de Aragón. Colón había partido del Puerto de Palos (España) dos meses y nueve días antes y, tras cruzar el océano Atlántico, llegó a una isla del continente americano, Guanahani, creyendo que había llegado a la India. Este hecho es uno de los momentos fundamentales de la historia universal y representa un “descubrimiento” de riquezas, buena tierra, condiciones climáticas favorables al europeo y de una población con una cosmología de relaciones de poder muy distintas, sin pretensiones expansionistas; así como un mal llamado "encuentro de dos mundos" que habían evolucionado independientemente desde el poblamiento de América.
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King James II was a fanatical Catholic whose overzealous religious beliefs led him to make enemies within his kingdom and alienate himself.
Two years after he was made King, he issued a Declaration of Indulgence in which he abolished the penal laws against Nonconformists and a few months later, he made a decree that another Declaration of Indulgence would be read from the pulpit for two consecutive Sundays which was met by uneasiness by some Bishops who wrote to him, outlining their displeasure but he had them prosecuted for libel.
King James' actions did not sit well with the people who wanted him out and eventually in 1689, he was deposed and replaced by his daughter Mary II and her husband William III.
