Indentured servitude
1652: Rhode Island slavery ban is not enforced
1669: Virginia makes killing enslaved people legal
1676: Rebellion spurs imports of enslaved Africans
1705: Slave Codes deny rights, legalize barbarity
1734: Sarah Chauqum: Native American woman wins reparations
1739-1740: Native Americans use courts to win freedom
1741: New York "slave plot" brutally suppressed
1762: Jenny Slew: Among first to win a freedom suit
1780: Black residents help win first abolition law
1788: Massachusetts bans slave trades, expels "outsiders"
1790: Opium king bankrolls hospitals, museums
1835-1836: Colonists win Texas independence, protect right to enslave
1849: Mexico: Freedom for escapees at a price
1865: Planters mull plan to import Chinese laborers
