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The Virginia code for slaves
The Virginia slave code codifes slave staus, declaring all non-Christian servants entering the colony to be slaves. It defines all slaves as real estate, acquitsmasters who kill slaves during punishment, forbids slaves and free colored peoples from physically assaulting white perosns, and denies slaves the right to bear arms or move aboad without written permission -
Slaves Revolt
In New York City the slaves kill whites during an up rising,later squelched by miltlia. Ninteen rebels are exectued -
Slave law
New York enacts a fugitive slave law -
George Washinton try's to free the slaves
In July, George Washinton announces a ban on the enlistment of free blacks and slaves in the colonial army. By the end of the year, he reverses the ban, ordering the Continental Army to accept the service of free blacks -
Important Slave got free
Virginia prohibits the importation of slaves -
The Slavery Grows
the slave population is now nearly four million, making the ratio of free to enslaved Americans approximately 7:1 -
The Civil War
United States Civil War Four year of brutal conflict claim 623,000 lives -
slavery ends
Slavery Abolished the 13th amendent to United States Constituion outlaw slavery
