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Spanish and Portuguese bring Afraican slaves to the Caribbean and Central America to replace Native Americans in the gold mines.
Why did they replace the Native American?
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The Europeans bring the first slaves to the New World (Jamestown, VA)
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Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery.
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Virginia legalizes slavery.
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The king of England encouraged the expansion of the British trade.
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The first organized protest against slavery in the world was drafted by a group of Quakers in Germantown, PA. Known as the Germantown Protest, it disagreed that Christians should do as they would want to be done to them, that slavery was basically theft as you were buying something stolen.
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The first black churches in America.
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Georgia is the last colony to leglize slavery.
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Pennsylvania makes a alegal document forbid removal of blacks from the state.
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U.S. Congress makes first fugitive slave law.
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Benjamin Rush elected president of the society of abolition.
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Parliament outlaws British participation in the African Slave Trade.
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Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
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