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May 17, 1641
Massachusetts colony -
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July 19,1660
Slavery spread quickly in America colonies. legal status of Africans in America was poorly defined -
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May 17, 1661
Changed of Law. Slavery entered into Virginia Law was directed at white servants those who ran away with a black servant. Following year, on the state that any children born would be bonded or free according to the status of the mother -
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May 17,1698
parliament opens slave trade to British merchants. From New England to Africa to Caribbean Islands to New England, Merchant vessels would carry new England rum to African slaves on "Middle passage to West Indies and West Indian sugar and molasses to New England for rum distilleries -
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April 1, 1787
slavery is made illegal in the northwest territory. US Constitution state that Congress may not ban slave trade until 1808 -
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May 24, 1820
Missouri territory gained sufficient population to warrant its admission into the Union as a state. Statehood bill proposed Amendment passed the house in 1819 -
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May 17, 1857
Scott v Sanford decision declares federal government has no right to interfere with the status of slavery in the territories denies citizenship to African Americans -
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May 17, 1858
US Senate Candiate Abraham Lincolin delivers " A house devided speech" on slavery during a series of debates with Senater Stephen Douglas