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Spain permitted African Americans to be sent to the U.S
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First African slaves arrived in Hispaniola
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• Maryland passed a law under which free white women would lose their freedom if they married a black slave, and under which the children of white women and black men became slaves
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Maryland became the first of the future states to pass a law making it illegal for free English women to marry "Negro slaves
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Virginia passed a law stating that baptism could not free "slaves by birth