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First free African-American community: Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose (later named Fort Mose) in Spanish Florida. [17] 1739. September 9 – In the Stono Rebellion, South Carolina slaves gather at the Stono River to plan an armed march for freedom. [18] 1753. Benjamin Banneker designed and built the first clock of its type in the Thirteen ...
Approximately 5,000 free African-American men helped the American Colonists in their struggle for freedom. One of these men, Agrippa Hull, fought in the American Revolution for over six years. He and the other African-American soldiers fought in order to improve their white neighbor's views of them and advance their own fight of freedom. [43]
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Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [2]The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...
First African-American full-time faculty member at a predominantly white law school: William Robert Ming (University of Chicago Law School) [37] First African-American female member of the U.S. House and Senate press galleries: Alice Allison Dunnigan (See also: 1948)
ca. 1500 – First African slaves taken to Hispaniola. 1513 – Ponce de León in Florida. 1519–21 – Hernán Cortés conquers the Aztec Empire. 1531–33 – Francisco Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire. 1539–42 – Hernando de Soto explores North America from the Gulf of Mexico to the Ozarks.
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African women entered the colony as early as 1619, although their status remains a historical debate—free, slave, or indentured servant. In the 17th century, high mortality rates for newcomers and a very high ratio of men to women made family life either impossible or unstable for most colonists.