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Africans sold in Virginia
Africans were sold into slavery in the British North American colonies for the first time by Dutch traders at Jamestown, Virginia.
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Massachusetts statutory recognition of slavery
Massachusetts became the first North American colony to give statutory recognition to slavery, followed by Connecticut, 1660; Virginia, 1661; Maryland, 1663; New York and New Jersey, 1664; South Carolina, 1682; Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, 1700; North Carolina, 1715; Georgia, 1750.
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First group manumission in North America
In the first group manumission in North America, eleven black slaves successfully petitioned the government of New Amsterdam for their freedom.
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Charter of Company of Royal Adventurers
England chartered the Company of Royal Adventurers (renamed Royal African Company in 1672), whose African trade included slaves and commodities.
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Anti-slavery protest in America
The German Mennonite Resolution Against Slavery was passed. It was the first formal anti-slavery protest in colonial America.
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New England entered slave trade
New England merchants entered the slave trade in the 1640s.
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Virginia Slave Code
Virginia became the first colony to establish a comprehensive slave code. The code asserted that slaves were real estate, declared “thirty lashes” the punishment for any slave or person of color who assaulted a white person, prohibited slaves from bearing arms or moving without permission, and declared that any master who killed a slave in the course of “correction” would be “acquitt[ed] of all punishment.”
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Asiento
Britain gained the Asiento contract as part of the Treaty of Utrecht. This ensured the exclusive right to supply slaves to Spanish colonies and marked the rapid escalation of the British slave trade.
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Slaves offered freedom in Spanish Florida
Escaped British slaves were offered freedom in Spanish Florida.
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Stono Rebellion
A group of slaves in South Carolina staged a major rebellion. Marching south from the Stono River, the rebels killed whites they encountered and recruited other slaves to join them. White colonists pursued the slaves, and by the end of the rebellion about twenty-five whites and thirty slaves were dead. Most of the slaves who initially escaped were eventually captured and executed or re-enslaved.