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first afercan american came to virgiana
they have apeard to have been inturped and becmae slaves -
the practise of slavery begains
when the slaves go there was a sell and they sold the slaves and they beat them -
Lucy Terry
an enslaved person in 1746, becomes the earliest known black American poet when she writes about the last American Indian attack on her village of Deerfield -
Phillis Wheatley's
Religious and Moral is published, making her the first African American to do so. -
was mad elegal to have a slave
The U.S Constitution states that Congress may not ban the slave trade until 1808. -
Eli Whitney's
greatly increases the demand for slave labor. -
fugitive slave law
is enacted, providing for the return slaves who had escaped and crossed state lines. -
Gabriel Prosser
an enslaved African-American blacksmith, organizes a slave revolt intending to march on Richmond, Virginia. The conspiracy is uncovered, and Prosser and a number of the -
bans slavery
Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa. -
The Missouri Compromise
bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri.