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  2. Massachusetts Body of Liberties - Wikipedia

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    The Massachusetts Body of Liberties was the first legal code established in New England, compiled by Puritan minister Nathaniel Ward. The laws were established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1641. The Body of Liberties begins by establishing the exclusive right of the General Court to legislate and dictate the "Countenance of Authority".

  3. History of slavery in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    In 1641, Massachusetts passed its Body of Liberties, which gave legal sanction to certain kinds of slavery. [ 36 ] There shall never be any bond slaverie, villinage or captivitie amongst us unless it be lawfull captives taken in just warres, and such strangers as willingly selle themselves or are sold to us.

  4. Boston African American National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    First enslaved Africans brought to Boston aboard the slave ship Desire. 1641 Massachusetts enacted Body of Liberties defining legal slavery in the colony. 1770 In 1770, Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave, was the first colonist killed in Boston Massacre. He was a national symbol of black men, like the black Revolutionary War soldiers, who helped ...

  5. Slavery in the colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1641, the Massachusetts Bay Colony became the first colony to authorize slavery through enacted law. [67] Massachusetts passed the Body of Liberties, which prohibited slavery in many instances but allowed people to be enslaved if they were captives of war, if they sold themselves into slavery or were purchased elsewhere, or if they were ...

  6. African-American history - Wikipedia

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    Massachusetts was the first colony to legalize slavery in 1641. [32] Other colonies followed suit by passing laws that made slave status heritable and non-Christian imported servants slaves for life. [31] At first, Africans in the South were outnumbered by white indentured servants who came voluntarily from Europe. They [who?] avoided the ...

  7. Massachusetts investigators pursue six 8th graders who ... - AOL

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    A mock slave auction held on Snapchat was directed at two particular students at Southwick Regional School, investigators allege SOUTHWICK, […] The post Massachusetts investigators pursue six ...

  8. Massachusetts teacher on leave after holding mock slave ...

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    A fifth-grade teacher in Massachusetts has been placed on paid leave after a series of incidents including holding a mock slave auction, using a racial slur, and calling out the student who ...

  9. History of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    In 1850, Brown founded his first militant, anti-slavery organization – The League of the Gileadites – in Springfield, to protect escaped slaves from 1850s Fugitive Slave Act. Massachusetts was a hotbed of abolitionism – particularly the progressive cities of Boston and Springfield – and contributed to subsequent actions of the state ...