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In 1619
Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. -
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Slavery in America
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Boston Massacre
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 -
Rebellion
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Frederick Douglass
with the help of William Lloyd Garrison, the radical newspaper was founded 1820 -
Denmark Vesey in Charleston in 1822
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American Civil War
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 -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation -
Official emancipation proclamation
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.” -
End of the Civil War
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Civil Rights Act
End of segregation in public places
Employee discrimination banned
Race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
