New England: Profiting from slavery
1638: Enslaved Africans traded for Native prisoners
1638: Enslaver orders rape to "breed slave stock"
1641: Massachusetts gives legal green light to slavery
1644-1645: First slaving venture helps legitimize bondage in Massachusetts
1652: Rhode Island slavery ban is not enforced
1669: Virginia makes killing enslaved people legal
1676: Colonists trade Native captives for enslaved Africans
1698: Colonial merchants gain right to trade Africans
1700: Puritans debate: Is slavery Christian?
1700: Isaac Royall: A dynasty built on slavery
1734: Sarah Chauqum: Native American woman wins reparations
1739-1740: Native Americans use courts to win freedom
1740-1742: Slave trader's hall hosts abolitionist rallies
1743: Mutiny, chocolate, and racial capitalism
1761: Phillis Wheatley Peters: Genius poet arrives on slave ship
1764: Tax law protest tied to growing rum industry
1764: Colleges reckon with blood money, history
1765: Mass deaths are turning point for slave trader
1771: Governor rebuffs proposed ban on slave imports
1779: In New Hampshire, 20 enslaved Africans petition for freedom
1780-1787: Thousands starve after food imports cut
1783: Belinda Sutton: Fights to be paid for 50 years in bondage
1790: Opium king bankrolls hospitals, museums
1791: Prominent slave trader evades murder charges
1793: Cotton gin boosts, prolongs plantation slavery system
1794: Slave trade law fails to curb trafficking
1798: Ivory and slavery: The deadly cost of a pianoforte
1814: Cotton enriches businessmen, North and South
1816: Revolts advance abolition cause in British empire
1820: Maine becomes a free state in deal over slavery
1820: Maine slave trader first to be executed
1855: U.S. traders transport enslaved Chinese to Brazil
1860: New schooner linked to illegal slave trade circle
1865: Planters mull plan to import Chinese laborers
