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In Jamestown, Virginia 20 captive Africans are sold into slavery
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The Dutch West India Company imports 11 black male slaves into the New Netherlands
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Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery
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Connecticut legalizes slavery
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Rhode Island passes laws restricting slavery and forbidding enslavement
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Virginia enacts a law of hereditary slavery
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Maryland legalizes slavery
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New York and New Jersey legalize slavery
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Virginia declares that all imported black servants are slaves for life
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Pennsylvania legalizes slavery
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Georgia prohibits the importation and use of black slaves
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Spanish Florida promises freedom and land to runaway slaves
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Slaves in Massachusetts unsuccessfully petition the government for their freedom
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Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Georgia prohibit the importation of slaves
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The first abolition society is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, forbids its members from holding slaves
