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The first African slaves arrived in Virginia.
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All the colonies legalized race-based slavery and introduced "slave codes". In total, 10-13 million Africans were abducted and sold as slaves between 1620 and 1880.
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Slavery is made illegal in the Northwest Territory. The U.S Constitution states that Congress may not ban the slave trade until 1808.
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Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin greatly increases the demand for slave labor.
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A federal fugitive slave law is enacted, providing for the return slaves who had escaped and crossed state lines.
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Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved African American blacksmith, organizes a slave revolt intending to march on Richmond, Virginia. The conspiracy is uncovered, and Prosser and a number of the rebels are hanged. Virginia's slave laws are consequently tightened.
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Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
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Between 1808 and 1865 there where smuggeld 270,000 Slaves into the USA.
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Some states, like Louisiana or Tunis, passed legislation prohibiting the sale of children under the age of ten.
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There were 250,000 freed slaves in the south by 1860.
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The Confederacy is founded when the deep South secedes, and the Civil War begins
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President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate state "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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The Civil War ends. Lincoln is assassinated. The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery throughout the United States. On June 19 slavery in the United States effectively ended when 250,000 slaves in Texas finally received the news that the Civil War had ended two months earlier.
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The Civil Rights Act was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public.
