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Twenty slaves in Virginia Africans brought to Jamestown are the first slaves imported into Britain’s North American colonies.
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Colonial North America's slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier, Desire, is built and launched in Massachusetts.
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Blacks or Indians could no longer own white indentured servants.
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Virginia declares that all imported black servants are slaves for life
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The Pennsylvania Quakers pass the first formal antislavery resolution.
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Massachusetts makes marriage and sexual relations between blacks and whites illegal.
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James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw's writes the first autobiographical slave narrative.
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Slavery Abolished The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery.
