Both states were admitted as free states while a slave-holding state was being added.
Kids probably needed to work the farm and tend to the livestock, etc. War has a nasty way of disrupting normal life.
Not only was Africa divided by rulers instead of ethnic customs, but they took much of the wealth that came from African trade. Colonists worked to convert them to modern ways that they thought were better.
.New York slave revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York, in the British Province of New York, from 23 enslaved Africans who killed nine white and injured another six. More than three times that number of blacks, 70, were arrested and imprisoned. Of these, 27 were brought to trial, and 21 tried and executed.
He was an african american, a former slave