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Africans begin being shipped to North America as slaves
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Society of Negroes is founded in Boston
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1770 until 1860, the rate of natural growth of North American enslaved people was much greater than for the population of any nation in Europe, and was nearly twice as fast as that of England.
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The Declaration of Independence is adopted, after a passage denouncing the slave trade had been omitted from the text
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Slavery abolished in the northern states first in Vermont, last in New Jersey while continuing and growing in importance in the South
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U.S. Constitution adopted protecting the state's rights to slavery
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The writers of the United States Constitution decide that slaves will count as three fifths of a person when deciding how many representatives each state will have in Congress.
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Sojourner Truth escapes from slavery and begins fighting for the desegregation of buses in Washington D.C. and for women’s rights.
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Nat Turner sees a vision and hears voices telling him to fight against slavery by killing slave owners.
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The Ku Klux Klan begins terrorizing blacks.
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Majority of Supreme Court ruled that Segregation laws did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment as long as th facilities available to both races were roughly equal.
