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From 1620 to 1670, black and white people worked in the tobacco fields together, lived together, and slept together (also doing these things with the American Indians )
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The total Virginia population of about 18,500 included only 300 black people
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Almost 300,000 Africans labored throughout Spanish America on plantations and in gold/silver mines.
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A slave rebellion in the British North American Colonies. It proved unsuccessful.
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A slave rebellion in the British North American Colonies. It proved unsuccessful.
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Over 100 South Carolina slaves had escaped to Spanish Florida and formed a free black militia company at St. Augustine.
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The largest slave uprising in the British North Ameican colonies was the Stono South of 1739 in South Carolina.
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War between France and Britain that began in North America in 1754, spread to Europe in 1756, and forced France to withdraw from North America in 1763.
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Act of 1764 designed to raise rev-enue for the Britsh government that levied duties on sugar.
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Act of 1765 designed to raise revenue for the British government that levied duties on paper products.
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1770 event in whch British troops fired into an angry crowd, killing five Bostonians.
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Contientintal Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776.
I was also drafted by a slaveholder in a slaveholding country. When Thomas Jefferson wrote "that all men are created equal," of course, he wasn't supporting black people. -
Europeans establishes colonies inthe Americas and the demand for cheap labor grew.
By the time slave trade ended, the English had transported 1.7 million Africans. By 1830 nearly 2 million Africans were sold to British in North America -
Fugitive slaves were declared to be "contraband of war" if their labor had been used to aid the Confederacy in a way. If found to be contraband, they were declared to be free.
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By the end of 1870. Buying and selling Africans for work in America was known as the Atlantic Slave Trade.
