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  2. Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia

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    The line "no slave shall enter Peru without becoming free" is taken out of the Constitution in 1839. [116] 1836 Portugal: Prime Minister Sá da Bandeira bans the transatlantic slave trade and the importation and exportation of slaves to or from the Portuguese colonies south of the equator. 1837 Spain: Slavery abolished outside of the colonies ...

  3. History of civil rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The institution of slavery in the United States existed since the colonial era when the Atlantic slave trade led to the importation of roughly 450,000 enslaved Africans to various European colonies in North America. After the United States was founded in 1776, slavery continued to exist on a widespread scale in the American South.

  4. List of timelines - Wikipedia

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    There are several types of timeline articles. Historical timelines show the significant historical events and developments for a specific topic, over the course of centuries or millennia. Graphical timelines provide a visual representation for the timespan of multiple events that have a particular duration, over the course of centuries or ...

  5. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    By 1804, before the creation of new states from the federal western territories, the number of slave and free states was 8 each. By the time of Missouri Compromise of 1820, the dividing line between the slave and free states was called the Mason-Dixon line (between Maryland and Pennsylvania), with its westward extension being the Ohio River.

  6. Timeline of video formats - Wikipedia

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    MPEG-2 video format and Dolby Digital or Digital Theatre System (DTS) audio format stored on a DVD: 2003 DualDisc: One side DVD, one side CD - It's the DualDisc Digital. Multiple formats encoded onto the same disc 2005 HD DVD: An HD DVD Digital. Uses VC-1, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, or H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2 video formats and Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master ...

  7. Timeline of the abolition of slavery - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Timeline of the abolition of slavery

  8. Civil rights movement (1896–1954) - Wikipedia

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    The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent action to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on American society – in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism.

  9. End of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    After the United States was founded in 1776, the country split into slave states (states permitting slavery) and free states (states prohibiting slavery). Slavery became concentrated in the Southern United States. The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807 banned the Atlantic slave trade, but not the domestic slave trade or