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• Portuguese negotiate the first slave trade agreement that also includes gold and ivory. By the end of the 19th Century, because of the slave trade, five times as many Africans (over 11 million) would arrive in the Americas than Europeans
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The first African American child, William Tucker is born in the colony
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Rhode Island declares an enslaved person must be freed after 10 years of service
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The King of England charters the Royal African Company, thereby encouraging the expansion of the British slave trade
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Georgia is the last of the British North American colonies to legalize slavery
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Founding of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (PAS), the world's first antislavery society and the first Quaker anti-slavery society. Benjamin Franklin becomes Honorary President of the Society in 1787
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Publication in London of John Marrant's book, A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black Man, the first autobiography of a free black.
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Liberia, on the west coast of Africa, is established by freed American slaves
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Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Virginia
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the segregation of Montgomery, Ala., buses is unconstitutional.
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Althea Gibson becomes the first African American tennis player to win a major title by winning both the women's singles and doubles championships at Wimbledon
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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) begins to organize Freedom Rides throughout the South to try to de-segregate interstate public bus travel.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
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King organizes a protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, for African American voting rights. A shocked nation watches on television as police club and teargas protesters.
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August Anthony Alsina was born on September 3,1992 in new Orleans, Louisiana.
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Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor is taken place in Spokane County, Mississippi.
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My grandma wasnt feeling well , so we took her took the hospital. After several hours of waiting we went into the hospital room , then the door came the bad news hit me my grandma had cancer. About a year later or so she beat cancer!