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Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
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One of the first martyrs to the cause of American patriotism was Crispus Attucks, a former slave who was killed by British soldiers during the Boston Massacre of 1770
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with the help of William Lloyd Garrison, the radical newspaper was founded 1820
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Fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. As a result of the long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861
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Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation
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January 1, 1863, he made it official that “slaves within any State, or designated part of a State…in rebellion,…shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
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End of segregation in public places
Employee discrimination banned
Race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
