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The Africans were sold as indentured servants, not slaves.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony legalizes slavery.
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Virginia legalizes slavery.
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Maryland becomes the first colony to enact laws that recognize slavery for life. Under prior English law slaves who became Christians were granted freedom.
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