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Twenty african americans arrive in jamestown.
Twenty Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, aboard a Dutch ship. They were the first blacks to be forcibly settled as involuntary laborers in the North American British Colonies. -
First Antislavery Resoulution passed
The Quakers of Germantown, Pennsylvania, passed the first formal antislavery resolution. -
Execution of 21 African Americans
A slave insurrection occurred in New York City, resulting in the execution of 21 African Americans. -
The Cato Revolt
killing more than 25 whites, most of the rebels, led by a slave named Cato, were rounded up as they tried to escape to Florida. More than 30 blacks were executed as participants. -
Free blacks fight with minutemen
Free blacks fight with the Minutemen in the initial skirmishes of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. -
two blacks commended for their service on the American side at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
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Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery.
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George Washington reversed previous policy and allowed the recruitment of blacks as soldiers.
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Richard Allen and Absalom Jones organized the Free African Society
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The Continental Congress forbade slavery in the region northwest of the Ohio River by the Northwest Ordinance.
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Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Law
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he Ohio legislature passed "Black Laws" designed to restrict the legal rights of free blacks
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Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery
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The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in states in rebellion against the United States.
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I have a dream speech
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Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.