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Miscegenation
In Northumberland country, a mulatto woman Elizabeth Kay, successfully sued her master for her freedom and imediately married her white lawyer after the trial. -
Virginia's Act XII
The house of Burgesses session of December 1662, which produced the statue known as Negro Women's Children to Serve according to Condition of the Mother. Act XII made civil status a matter of the status inherited from the mother. The second part of Act XII absolved all responsibilities of the child from the father. There was also a fine. -
Stono Rebellion.
Slave rebellion. -
Slave Population
By 1750 New York's slave poulation was 20% of the total. -
Crispus Attucks
Attucks was an escaped slave who had an anti-British sentimate. He took the lead in confronting Captain Thomas Preston and the nine soldiers under his command which would prevoke the event known as the Boston Massacre. He was the first to get shot. -
Seven Years' War
War between France and Britain that started in North America and spread to Europe in 1756. The war spread to Europe which forced France to withdraw in 1763. -
Slave Ship Mutiny
A man named Massavana and his fellow prisons committed a mutiny on a slave ship. They took controll of the slave ship and told the dutch crewmen to sail them back to their home on Madagaskar but instead the inexperienced slaves were unable to tell that the crew was sailing them to Cape Town where the slaves would be captured. -
Georgian Slave Poulation
During the 1750s, rice cultivation and slavery spread into Georgias's coastal plain. By 1773 Georgia had as many black people as white people. -
Race and Gene Studies
Physician Dr. Samuel Cartwright observed that African American's ran away from slave plantations and white people didn't. He called this "drapetomania" and it was apperently exclusive to Negroes. -
Emancipation Proclimation
President Lincoln signs the executive order to free all slaves from the 10 states still in rebelion. They argued that black people were suitable to fight. -
1676
An amed rebellion made from poor people in the verginia colony rebelled against the house of burgesses. This was led by Nathaniel Bacon who also hated Native Americans. -
Gouvernour Morris
He was against slavery completely but voted with the 3/5's compromise because no one would abolish slavery at that time. He called slavery a "nafarious intitution".
