History+of+Slavery


 * History of Slavery in Colonial America from 1517 to 1777**


 * 1517** - The trans-Atlantic slave trade begins.
 * 1619** - Twenty African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia.
 * 1641** - Massachusetts becomes the first colony to legalize slavery. The other states follow.
 * 1662** - A Virginia statute declares that children born would have the same status as their mother.
 * 1663** - A slave rebellion occurs in Gloucester County, Virginia.
 * 1676** - Virginian slaves and indentured servants participate in Bacon’s Rebellion.
 * 1688** - Pennsylvania Quakers pass an anti-slavery resolution.
 * 1712** - In a New York slave rebellion, 23 slaves in possession of guns and knives, set fire to the home of a slave owner. The slaves killed nine whites and injured six others. The slaves responsible were captured and put on trial. Twenty-one of the slaves were found guilty and executed.
 * 1739** - September 9 – The slave uprising, the Stono Rebellion, occurs in South Carolina. Slaves burn and kill whites. Slaves are stopped before they can reach Florida.
 * 1770** - March 5 – Crispus Attucks, a fugitive slave, is the first to be killed in the American Revolution.
 * 1767** - Phillis Wheatley, a slave, publishes her first poem in the Newport Rhode Island, //Mercury//.
 * 1773** - Phillis Wheatley’s book, //Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral// is published.
 * 1775** - The first abolitionist society is organized.
 * 1776** - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, members of the Continental Congress sign the Declaration of Independence, and forget about slaves.
 * 1777** - Vermont becomes the first colony to abolish slavery.

"Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die." Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain, May be refin'd and join th'angelic train.
 * One of Phillis Wheatly's Poems**


 * A picture of Phillis Wheatly**

For more about Phillis Wheatly- http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/wheatley.html http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/american/wheatley.html

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