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Purchase of the first slaves
English Settlers in Virgina purchase 20 Africans from a dutch ship -
Massachusetts Bay Colony legalizes slavery
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Virginia legalizes slavery
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Pennsylvania Aboltion Society that protects the rights of slaves
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Vermont an American colony are the first government entity
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Tenessee becomes the sixteenth state and eners the Union a slave state
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New Jersey's legislature announces a gradual emancipation act
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Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire
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Period: to
Civil War
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South Sucedes
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South Creats a governments
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South Seizes Federal forts
