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Colonials and their Native allies set fire to a fortified Pequot village in what is now Mystic, Connecticut during the Pequot War -
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a bloody slave uprising in Southampton County, Virginia, led by the enslaved preacher Nat Turner -
a 1857 U.S. Supreme Court ruling stating that African Americans, free or enslaved, could not be U.S. citizens and thus had no right to sue in federal court -
an executive order signed by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring that all people held as slaves in the Confederate states still in rebellion against the United States were free