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Slavery
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First Slavery in British North America
Twenty one African chattel slaves were first brought to British North America ( to Jamestown, Virginia) in 1619. They joined white indentured laborers (servants) from all over Europe as well as Indian (Native-American) and Caribbean slaves. -
Slave Codes
All the colonies legalized race-based (black) slavery and introduced "slave codes" by 1670 -
First banning of slavery
On the eve of the American Revolution, c. 400,000 slaves amounted to one fifth of the population of the rebellious colonies. Slavery in
the USA was abolished in stages and decades after it was eliminated in Britain. Rhode Island banned it as early as 1774. Pennsylvania, New-York, and New Jersey followed suit. -
Importation of slaves stopped
The slave trade - or, more precisely, the importation of slaves into the USA - was banned altogether in 1808. -
Slave Sale
While individual slaves were, at least theoretically, protected by law and social custom - not so the Negro family. The owner had the right to sell his slaves separately, regardless of their familial ties. Some states, like Louisiana in 1829, passed legislation prohibiting the sale of children under the age of ten. Others (Alabama and Georgia) forbade the separation of inherited slave families. But these were the exceptions to the widespread practice. -
250000 feed slaves
There were 250,000 freed slaves in the south by 1860. -
Slaves in south were emancipated
Slaves in the South (the Confederacy) were finally emancipated in 1863, during the Civil War. But, even then, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to some states within the Union. These other slaves remained in slavery until December 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was adopted. -
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech, which is symbolic for the civil rights movement.
oted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,[1] that banned discrimination based on "race, color, religion, or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups; and the Fair Housi
