Maine
1676: Executions portend broad assault on Indigenous peoples
1755: Cash for scalps = license to kill Indians
1820: Maine becomes a free state in deal over slavery
1820: Maine slave trader first to be executed
1844: Historian derides notions of White superiority
1845: Frances Ellen Watkins: Poet, anti-slavery activist
1852: Uncle Tom's Cabin is praised, vilified
1855: Personal liberty laws protect escapees
1865: KKK founded; will boast over 500,000 New England members in 1920s
1865: Planters mull plan to import Chinese laborers
