Back Through the Veil: A Brief History of African-Americans Living in Mansura,

Over three centuries, slavery in the United States grew from a few people held in a state of semi-indentured servitude to millions held in the most horrific circumstances ever to exist on the North American continent. Due to the free labor needed to harvest the indigo and cotton crops that were essential to the economy of the South, slavery grew much quicker there than in the North. Once the Civil War ended, with hundreds of thousands of casualties, the South quickly turned to a modified fo...