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English settlers from Virginia bought servants. They were not sold as slaves, but eventually they were treated and bought as lifelong slaves.
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Massechusits Bay Colony legalizes slavery in 1641. After that, more states started to legalize slavery. In 1660 Virginia legalized slavery.
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John Casor was the first slave to be judicially confirmed and legal.
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Slaves started to rebell. While some slaves were born into slavery, and knew no better, others wanted nothing more than their freedom. They would destroy property and fight against their owners. They would be severly punished, but rarly killed, because that would just be waisting the slave owners money.
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The spanish were not for slavery. They issued a proclamation stating that any slaves that made it to St. Augustine Flordia.
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The Quakers Started a society against slavery. They didn't believe in slavery. The society was called "The Pensylvania society for the abolition of slavery."
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In 1777 Verginia, not even a state yet, was the first to abolish slavery. Pensylvania aboloshed slavery in 1780.
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Eli Whitney invented a simple machine that influenced the United states big time. Plantation owners were able to plant more cotton when this was invented. It was easily seperated from the seeds.
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the underground railroad stretched out for years andyears. It really started in the early 1800's though. The Underground Railroad was neither underground or a railroad. It was a series of people who would hide run away slaves. the people would hide the slaves for a day or so, then the slaves would run to the next house, untill they were to a free state.
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This was was against Mexico and the United states. They were fighting for land. When the Americans won, they also won land. America blocked out adding the Texan republic to the US for years because they were afraid that it would add many new slave states to the US. This caused conflict.
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Dred Scott was a slave who was a slave. He and his owner moved to a free state, when his owner died. He thought he should be freed. He took it to the supreme court, and they said anyone with African American blood can not be free.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president 1860. He disliked slavery. He assumed office on March 4 1861.
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The American civil War Began in North Carolina. The war lasted until 1865, when slaves were set free.
