According to Quintard Taylor in "America I Am..." Elias Neau a frenchman opened a school in New York City for African slaves in 1704.
In 1708, slaves outnumbered whites in South Carolina.
The first major slave revolt occurred in South Carolina in 1739.
By 1742, there were 20,000+ blacks and 266,000 mulattoes in Mexico.
In 1760, Jupiter Hammon published a book of poetry.
The black population in British America was about 325,000.
As early as the 1700, the fight against slavery was a regular occurance. As a result, many states started making laws to inforce slavery and make slavery legal.
By the time the colonies fought for independence, there were 450,000 blacks in the country.
There were Black fighting units during the war for independence in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Ben Fraanklin was an abolitionist.
In 1780, all children of slavees born after November 1, 1780, recieved automatic freedom at age 28.
1781, 26 people of African descent helped to found Los Angeles.
There were 1,002,037 blacks in the U.S. and 108,435 were free.
Posted By: Thomasena Martin-Johnson
Friday, February 4th 2011 at 4:19PM
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