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A Dutch ship brings 20 African slaves to Virginia.
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Massachusetts makes a law that says Puritans couldn't have slaves but non-Puritans could have slaves.
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William Penn is granted the charter for the province of Pennsylvania by the king of England.
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The city of Philadelphia was founded by William Penn.
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Alonso de Leon made the first Spanish mission in Texas.
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Virginia passes a law that required all the free blacks to leave Virginia.
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Salem, Massachusetts starts witch trials.
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The Virginia capitol moves from Jamestown to Williamsburg.
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The largest slave rebellion in colonial times takes place in Stono, South Carolina.
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By 1775 there were 500,000 African Americans in the colonies.
