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in the New World Spanish settlers bring slaves from Africa to Santo Domingo
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The first African slaves arrive in Virginia.
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Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery.
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Connecticut legalizes slavery.
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New York declares that blacks who convert to Christianity after their enslavement will not be freed.
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Massachusetts makes marriage and sexual relations between blacks and whites illegal.
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Delaware prohibits the importation of African slaves.
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First United States Census Nearly 700,000 slaves live and toil in a nation of 3.9 million people.
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Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved African American blacksmith, organizes a slave revolt intending to march on Richmond, Virginia.
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Denmark Vesey, an enslaved African American carpenter who had purchased his freedom, plans a slave revolt with the intent to lay siege on Charleston, South Carolina.
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Slavery Abolished The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery.
