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Slavery in America starts
Historians normally date the start of slavery in the North American colonies to 1619. That year, a Dutch ship carrying African slaves docked at Point Comfort, which served as Jamestown's checkpoint for ships wanting to trade with the colonists. The crew of the Dutch ship was starving, and as John Rolfe noted in a letter to the Virginia Company's treasurer Edwin Sandys, the Dutch traded 20 African slaves for food and supplies -
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Slavery begins and ends
Slavery begins and ends -
African slaves in Maryland
In the 1630's, African slaves came to Maryland -
Slave trade in Boston
The New England slave trade begins in Boston -
Carribean salve-labour
Beginning of large-scale introduction of slave-labor in the British Carribean -
Massachusetts gives recognition to salvery
Massachusetts was first colony to give statuary recognition to slavery; other
colonies followed, the last one being Georgia in 1750 -
Slave documents
Jonathan Winthrop records first documented baptism of a slave in New England -
Maryland and Virginia establish legal distincion
Maryland and Virginia begin establishing legal distinctions between races (life-
time slavery, inheritance of slaves, baptism irrelevant to status) -
Black codes give recognition
Black Codes give statutory recognition to the institution of slavery in VA -
Slave rebeliion!
First major conspiracy for a slave rebellion by black slaves and white indentured
servants in Gloucester County, VA. The plot was betrayed to the authorities
and several plotters were beheaded -
Slavery protest
Members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) protest slavery in Germantown, PA. -
Society of Negroes is founded in Boston
Society of Negroes is founded in Boston -
Ministers attempt to persuade court
A group of ministers attempts to persuade the court of Massachusetts to pass a bill
permitting slaveholders to retain baptized slaves -
Slaves killed
New York City Slave Rebellion
Armed slaves killed -
The Great Awakening begins in Massachusetts.
The Great Awakening begins in Massachusetts. The movement spreads to other
areas, encouraging new religious fervor among both Blacks and Whites -
Stone rebellion
80 armed slaves marched towards Spanish Florida from Stono, south Carolina. In a battle with a white militia group 44 blacks and 21 whites per island. -
Slavery ends
Slavery ends
