Modern School: Labor History Timeline--The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras

Modern School: Labor History Timeline--The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras:

Labor History Timeline--The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras

by Michael Dunn

The Colonial and Revolutionary Eras

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1619    First slaves brought to American colonies: They were brought to Jamestown by Dutch traders who had stolen them from a Spanish ship. Because the Spanish usually baptized captured Africans and the English exempted baptized people from chattel slavery, these first African Americans joined