TIMELINE OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA 1501-1865
1501
African Slaves in the New World Spanish ttlers bring slaves from Africa to Santo Domingo (now the capital of the Dominican Republic).
1522
Slave Revolt: the Caribbean Slaves rebel on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which now compris Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
1562
ringwormBritain Joins Slave Trade. John Hawkins, the first Briton to take part in the slave trade, makes a huge profit hauling human cargo from Africa to Hispaniola.
1581
Slaves in Florida Spanish residents in St. Augustine, the first permanent ttlement in Florida, import African slaves.
1612
The first commercial tobacco crop is raid in Jamestown, Virginia.
1619
Twenty slaves in Virginia Africans brought to Jamestown are the first slaves imported into Britain’s North American colonies. Like indentured rvants, they were probably freed after a fixed period of rvice.
1626
The Dutch West India Company imports 11 black male slaves into the New Netherlands. 1636
Colonial North America's slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier, Desire, is built and launched in Massachutts.
1640
John Punch, a runaway black rvant, is ntenced to rvitude for life. His two white companions are given extended terms of rvitude. Punch is the first documented slave for life.
1640
New Netherlands law forbids residents from harboring or feeding runaway slaves. 1641 The D'Angola marriage is the first recorded marriage between blacks in New Amsterdam. 1641
Massachutts is the first colony to legalize slavery.
1643
The New England Confederation of Plymouth, Massachutts, Connecticut, and New Haven adopts a fugitive slave law.
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Connecticut legalizes slavery.
1652
Rhode Island pass laws restricting slavery and forbidding enslavement for more than 10 years.
1652
Massachutts requires all black and Indian rvants to receive military training.
1654
A Virginia court grants blacks the right to hold slaves.
1657
Virginia pass a fugitive slave law.
1660
Charles II, King of England, orders the Council of Foreign Plantations to devi strategies for converting slaves and rvants to Christianity.
1662 Hereditary Slavery Virginia law decrees that children of black mothers “shall be bond or free according to the condition of the mother.”
1662
Massachutts revers a ruling dating back to 1652, which allowed blacks to train in arms. New Yor
k, Connecticut, and New Hampshire pass similar laws restricting the bearing of arms.
1663
In Gloucester County, Virginia the first documented slave rebellion in the colonies takes place.
1663
Maryland legalizes slavery.
1663
Charles II, King of England, gives the Carolinas to proprietors. Until the 1680s, most ttlers in the region are small landowners from Barbados.
1664
New York and New Jery legalize slavery.
1664
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Maryland is the first colony to take legal action against marriages between white women and black men.
1664
The State of Maryland mandates lifelong rvitude for all black slaves. New York, New Jery, the Carolinas, and Virginia all pass similar laws.
1666
Maryland pass a fugitive slave law.
1667
Virginia declares that Christian baptism will not alter a person's status as a slave. 1668 New Jery pass a fugitive slave law.
1670
The State of Virginia prohibits free blacks and Indians from keeping Christian (i.e. white) rvants.
1674
New York declares that blacks who convert to Christianity after their enslavement will not be freed.
1676
In Virginia, black slaves and black and white indentured rvants band together to participate in Bacon's Rebellion.
1680
The State of Virginia forbids blacks and slaves from bearing arms, prohibits blacks from congregating in large numbers, and mandates harsh punishment for slaves who assault Christians or attempt escape.
1682
Virginia declares that all imported black rvants are slaves for life.
New York makes it illegal for slaves to ll goods.
1688
The Pennsylvania Quakers pass the first formal antislavery resolution.
1691
Virginia pass the first anti-miscegenation law, forbidding marriages between whites and blacks or whites and Native Americans.
1691
Virginia prohibits the manumission of slaves within its borders. Manumitted slaves are forced to leave the colony.
1691
South Carolina pass the first comprehensive slave codes.
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Rice cultivation is introduced into Carolina. Slave importation increas dramatically. 1696
The Royal African Trade Company los its monopoly and New England colonists enter the slave trade.
1700
Pennsylvania legalizes slavery.
1702
New York pass An Act for Regulating Slaves. Among the prohibitions of this act are meetings of more than three slaves, trading by slaves, and testimony by slaves in court. 1703
Massachutts requires tho masters who liberate slaves to provide a bond of 50 pounds or more in the event that the freedman becomes a public charge.
1703
Connecticut assigns the punishment of whipping to any slaves who disturb the peace or assault whites.
1703
antismokingRhode Island makes it illegal for blacks and Indians to walk at night without pass. 1705 Slaves as Property Describing slaves as real estate, Virginia lawmakers allow owners to bequeath their slaves. The same law allowed masters to “kill and destroy” runaways.
1705
The Virginia Slave Code codifies slave status, declaring all non- Christian rvants entering the colony to be slaves. It defines all slaves as real estate, acquits masters who kill slaves during punishment, forbids slaves and free colored peoples from physically assaulting white persons, and denies slaves the right to bear arms or move abroad without written permission.
1705 New York declares that punishment by execution will be applied to certain runaway slaves.
1705
Massachutts makes marriage and xual relations between blacks and whites illegal. 1706
New York declares blacks, Indians, and slaves who kill white people to be subject to the death penalty.
Connecticut requires that Indians, mulattos, and black rvants gain permission from their masters to engage in trade.
1708
The Southern colonies require militia captains to enlist and train one slave for every white soldier.
1708
Rhode Island requires that slaves be accompanied by their masters when visiting the homes of free persons.
1708
Blacks outnumber whites in South Carolina.
1710
New York forbids blacks, Indians, and mulattos from walking at night without lighted lanterns.
1711
Pennsylvania prohibits the importation of blacks and Indians.
1711
Rhode Island prohibits the clandestine importation of black and Indian slaves.
1712
Pennsylvania prohibits the importation of slaves.
polyethylene terephthalate1712 Slave Revolt: New York Slaves in New York City kill whites during an uprising, later squelched by the militia. Nineteen rebels are executed.
1712
New York declares it illegal for blacks, Indians, and slaves to murder other blacks, Indians, and slaves.
1712
New York forbids freed blacks, Indians, and mulatto slaves from owning real estate and holding prop
erty.
1712
In Charleston, South Carolina slaves are forbidden from hiring themlves out.
1715
英文大写字母Rhode Island legalizes slavery.
1715
Maryland declares all slaves entering the province and their descendants to be slaves for life.
1717
New York enacts a fugitive slave law.
1723
Virginia abolishes manumissions.
1724
French Louisiana prohibits slaves from marrying without the permission of their owners. 1730-1750
The number of male and female slaves imported to the North American British colonies balances out for the first time.
1731
The Spanish rever a 1730 decision and declare that slaves fleeing to Florida from
Carolina will not be sold or returned.
1732
Slaves aboard the ship of New Hampshire Captain John Major kill both captain and crew, izing the vesl and its cargo.
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Quaker Elihu Coleman's A Testimony against That Anti-Christian Practice of MAKING SLAVES OF M
EN is published.
1735
Under an English law Georgia prohibits the importation and u of black slaves.
1735
Georgia petitions Britain for the legalization of slavery.
1735
Louis XV, King of France, declares that when an enslaved woman gives birth to the child of a free man, neither mother nor child can be sold. Further, after a certain time, mother and child will be freed.
1738
Georgia's trustees permit the importation of black slaves.
1738
Spanish Florida promis freedom and land to runaway slaves.
1739
Slaves in Stono, South Carolina rebel, sacking and burning an armory and killing whites. Some 75 slaves in South Carolina steal weapons and flee toward freedom in Florida (then under Spanish rule). Crushed by the South Carolina militia, the revolt results in the deaths of 40 blacks and 20 whiteThe colonial militia puts an end to the rebellion before slaves are able to reach freedom in Florida.
1740
South Carolina pass the comprehensive Negro Act, making it illegal for slaves to move abroad, asmble in groups, rai food, earn money, and learn to read English. Owners are permitted to kill rebellious slaves if necessary.
1740
Georgia and Carolina attempt to invade Florida in retaliation for the territory's policy toward runaways.
1749
Georgia repeals its prohibition and permits the importation of black slaves.
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George II repeals the 1705 act, making slaves real estate in Virginia.
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Pennsylvania Quakers forbid their members from owning slaves or participating in the slave trade.
1760
New Jery prohibits the enlistment of slaves in the militia without their master's permission.
1767
The Virginia Hou of Burgess boycotts the British slave trade in protest of the Townnd Acts. Georgia and the Carolinas follow suit.
1770
