| 1619 |
A Dutch ship brings first
Africans to Jamestown to work on tobacco plantations. |
| 1639 |
Virginia enacts the first law excluding
"Negroes" from normal protections provided by the
government. |
| 1663 |
A Virginia court rule that a
child born to a slave mother was also a slave. |
| 1667 |
Enslaved blacks and Indians are no
longer affected by Christian baptisms, and therefore are unable to
improve their legal status by changing religion. |
| 1682 |
A law is past distinguishing the
difference between servant and slave. |
| 1705 |
The Virginia General Assembly declares
those servants who were not Christians in their native land slaves,
and that slaves were property. |
| 1750 |
61% of British North American Slaves
work in tobacco fields in Virginia and Maryland. |
| 1775 |
Lord Dunmore proclaims that slaves who
escape patriot masters and join the loyalists will be granted
freedom. |
| 1790 |
By this time, slavery is entrenched in
the original 6 slave states: Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North
Carolina, Sough Carolina, and Georgia. |
| 1830 |
Nat Turner's Rebellion is put down in
southeastern Virginia. |
| 1859 |
Harpers, Ferry, (W) Virginia: Militant
abolitionist John Brown raids the Federal Arsenal in attempt to arm
slaves in a revolt. Revolt ends in bloodshed and defeat. |
