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Slavery started
Slavery started -
The Dutch West India Company imports 11 black male slaves into the New Netherlands.
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Colonial North America's slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier, Desire, is built and launched in Massachusetts.
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John Punch, a runaway black servant, is sentenced to servitude for life. His two white companions are given extended terms of servitude. Punch is the first slave to be sentenced to life.
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New Netherlands law forbids residents from harboring or feeding runaway slaves.
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The D'Angola marriage is the first recorded marriage between blacks in New Amsterdam.
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Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery.
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Virginia enacts a law of hereditary slavery meaning that a child born an enslaved mother inherits her slave status.
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In Virginia, black slaves and white indentured servants band together to participate in Bacon's Rebellion
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The first seperate black church in America is founded in South Carolina.
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The American Colonization Society is founded to help free blacks resettle in Africa.
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New York City hosts the first National Anti-Slavery Society Convention
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Abraham Lincoln is elected to the presidency.
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Tennessee is the first of many Southern states to establish an all white, Democratic "Redeemer" government sympathetic to the cause of the former Confederacy and against racial equality.
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Democrats win control of both houses of congress for the first time since the Antebellum period.
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Slavery ends.
