Slavery events from 1619 until 1964 By sgarrrido 1619 Twenty slaves in Virginia Africans brought to Jamestown are the first slaves imported into Britain’s North American colonies. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr3.html 1636 Colonial North America's slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier, Desire, is built and launched in Massachusetts. 1670 Blacks or Indians could no longer own white indentured servants. 1682 Virginia declares that all imported black servants are slaves for life 1688 The Pennsylvania Quakers pass the first formal antislavery resolution. https://www.nps.gov/articles/quakerpetition.htm 1705 Massachusetts makes marriage and sexual relations between blacks and whites illegal. 1772 James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw's writes the first autobiographical slave narrative. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/gronniosaw/summary.html 1865 Slavery Abolished The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
