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Foundation of Jamestown
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First African Americans sold into slavery in NA colonies
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MA settlement -- Plymouth Colony
religious reasons -
MA Bay colony
religious reasons -
Period: to
Indentured Servants Start Outliving their Contracts
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Middleton Place
SC plantation -
Declaration of Independence
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Stagville -- Main house is built
North Carolina plantation, 30,000 acres -
CIvil War Begins
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Civil War Ends
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Sharecropping
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New South Movement begins
Henry W. Grady proposes bringing the mills to the cotton. This is the begiining of the industrializaion of the South. Grady was the editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution (newspaper) so he was easily able to get his ideas out to the people.