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1441
African slaves first brought to portugal
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1518
Spain grants official license to Portuguese slavers
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1535
Africans constitute a majority on hispaniola
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First Africans brought to virginia
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English seize jamaica
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Virginia law makes slavery hereditary
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South Carolina founded
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Royal African company organized
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Virginia prohibits interracial sexual contact
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Britain opens the slave trade to all its merchants
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Spanish declare Florida a refuge for escaped slaves
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South Carolinians burn st Augustine
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French and Spanish native bombard charleston
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English capture port royal in Acadia
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Slave uprising in New York city
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Peace of Utrecht
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Period: to
Robert Walpole leafs British cabinet
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Natchez rebellion in French Louisiana
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Molasses act
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Stono rebellion in South Carolina
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Period: to
War of Jenkins ear
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Period: to
King George’s war
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Africans executed in New York for conspiracy
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Georgia official opened to slavery
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Peak period of the English colonies slave trade
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importation of slaves into the United States ends