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This is one a Dutch merchant ship accidentally landed at Jamestown, bringing what is considered the official beginning of the slave trade in America.
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A rebellion in which settlers, frontiersmen, indentured servants, and slaves revolted against governor, William Berkley, and beginning to stir up ideas that would influence the American Revolution. The racial caste was hardened, and Virginia Slave Codes were passed to avoid their reuniting in the future. -
An enslaved man from Boston sues for his freedom after moving to London. He was a baptized member of the Church of England. The British law determined that because of Somerset’s case a slave was not able to be re-captured after leaving the colonies therefore
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This was the war of the British Colonies against the British Crown. It built up ideas of freedom with US Declaration of Independence and Constitution, also stirring up sentiments of freedom in slaves.
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This was a rebellion in France against the poor citizens and the monarchy. It established the National Assembly which would lead to the petition for black freedom in Saint Domingue.
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Each man of color desperately wanted to claim freedom for themselves. Caught up in the spirit of the French Revolution, Black Slaves petitioned the National Assembly for their rights. After rejection and Civil War, the National Assembly approved the requests. The slave population then revolted in 1791, killing master and burning down plantations. Video -
Why is the declaration of Haitian Independence so important?
a. It was the first nation of free blacks in the modern world.
b. It was the second republic in the modern world.
c. There were only whites on the island.
d. It did not abolish slavery.
e. both a and b.