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  2. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...

  3. History of slavery in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    In 1628, a slave ship carried 100 people from Angola to be sold into slavery in Virginia, and consequently the number of Africans in the colony rose greatly. [8] [13] [15] The Atlantic slave trade had been in existence among Europeans before Africans landed in Virginia and according to custom, slavery was legal.

  4. History of slavery in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    The legal status of slavery in New Hampshire has been described as "ambiguous," [15] and abolition legislation was minimal or non-existent. [16] New Hampshire never passed a state law abolishing slavery. [17] That said, New Hampshire was a free state with no slavery to speak of from the American Revolution forward. [9] New Jersey

  5. Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 - Wikipedia

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    The enactment of the Slave Codes is considered to be the consolidation of slavery in Virginia, and served as the foundation of Virginia's slave legislation. [1] All servants from non-Christian lands became slaves. [2] There were forty one parts of this code each defining a different part and law surrounding the slavery in Virginia.

  6. Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia Secession Ordinance was to "repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia." That Constitution had been "perverted to their injury and oppression…not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern slave-holding states."

  7. Indentured servitude in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    They were still considered to be indentured servants, like the approximately 4000 white indentured people, since a slave law was not passed in the colony until 1661. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] At the turn of the century, an increase in the Atlantic slave trade enabled planters to purchase enslaved labor, in lieu of bonded labor (indentured servants and ...

  8. Chesapeake rebellion - Wikipedia

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    The Chesapeake rebellion of 1730 was the largest slave rebellion of the colonial period in North America. [1] Believing that Virginian planters had disregarded a royal edict from King George II which freed slaves, two hundred slaves gathered in Princess Anne County , Virginia, in October, electing captains and demanding that Governor Gooch ...

  9. Timeline of Japan–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    Japan was occupied until 1952 when the Treaty of San Francisco came into effect. Japan–United States relations continued to evolve throughout the Cold War and into the 21st century, with periods of cooperation and occasional trade disputes. The two nations maintain strong economic ties, and Japan is a crucial ally of the United States in Asia.