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The House of Burgesses passed its first comprehensive slave code.
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Slavery became increasingly significantly in the northern colonies as urban residents sought greater participation in the maritime economy.
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On a Sunday morning while planters were at church enslaved people rebelled and burned plantations which ended up killing about 20 white settlers.
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There was a new law that stated that killing a rebellious enslaved person was not a crime and even the murder of an enslaved person was treated as a minor misdemeanor.
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France and Britain feuded over the boundaries of their respective North American empires. Which led to a war which would become known as the Seven Years' War or the French and Indian War.
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The Quakers in Pennsylvania disowned members who engaged in the slave trade.
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The Seven Years’ War ended with the peace treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg.
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The Sugar Act was the start to all the taxes that would be brought upon the colonists.
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Philadelphia overtook Boston as the center of colonial printing.
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The slave owning Quakers could be expelled from their meetings.