Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, and other states with big cash crop plantations had the largest slave population in 1860.
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The last time Congress enacted sweeping immigration reform was back in 1986. That bill, signed by Ronald Reagan, looked a lot like the proposals being put forward today. There was a path to citizenship for existing illegal immigrants, coupled with tighter border enforcement.
People from the continent of Africa were enslaved in the southern colonies of what is now America.
They were sold and bartered like goods for the benefit of plantation owners, so that they could work and tend to the farm and other properties.
