On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima, Japan – the first time such a catastrophic weapon was ever used in conflict. Three days later the U.S. released another on Nagasaki, devastating the city and ushering in the nuclear age. Over the next few weeks, Global Zero will explore what led to the bomb’s development, the consequences of its use, and where we’ve come since those fateful days in August.
There was a lot of opposition to black people leaving the south because the white planter class did not want to lose their cheap labor if the blacks migrated westwards. They even went to the extent of closing the Mississippi River and intimidating to sink boats carrying the African Americans
In the southern colonies, the colonists had a very strange relationship with the Native Americans and were usually pro-slavery. The English traded and made business with the Native Americans. They fought constantly, though, and at one point war was declared between the two forces.
