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Enslavement Era: Africans were forcibly brought to the Americas to provide labor, particularly in agriculture, under exploitative conditions imposed by European colonizers and later the U.S. government.
Post-Emancipation: Following the Civil War, African Americans engaged in various labor roles, including sharecropping, landownership, and wage-earning, significantly contributing to the nation's industrial growth.