Learn The History Behind The Types Of African American Music In 10 Minutes

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Learn The History Behind The Types Of African American Music In 10 Minutes

The music you will hear is not necessarily preformed by people who played during the time their type of music was created (especially the early stuff). However they are respective and true members of the musical forms they represent. It can also be argued that early forms of some of these forms began at the […]

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John C. Freemont

John C. Fremont issued proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels. Lincoln revoked the proclamation.

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30

1854

Colonies give Statutory Recognition

Massachusetts became the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery. Other colonies followed: Connecticut 1650; Virginia, 1661; Maryland, 1663; New York and New Jersey, 1664; South Carolina, 1682; Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, 1700; North Carolina. 1715; Georgia, 1750.

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1

1641

Touissant L'Ouverture, born

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May

20

1743

North American Slave Narratives

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The Presbyterian Synod of New York and Pennsylvania urgesits members to educat

The Presbyterian Synod of New York and Pennsylvania urges its members to educate their slaves.

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Jan

0

1787

Alex Haley, renowned author, dies

American biographer, scriptwriter, author who became famous with the publication of the novel ROOTS, which traces his ancestry back to Africa and covers seven American generations as they are taken slaves to the United States. The book was adapted to television series, and woke up an interest in

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10

1992

Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise and opened Northern territory to slavery.

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May

30

1854

White supremacist John King sentenced to death

White supremacist John King, one of three white men accused of chaining James Byrd to a pickup and dragging him along a Texas road until he was decapitated, was sentenced to death by lethal injection. If his death penalty is carried out, he will be the first white Texan executed for killing a black

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25

1999

Fort Blount on Apalachicola Bay, Fla. was attacked

Fort Blount on Apalachicola Bay, Fla., attacked by U.S. troops. The Fort, which was held by fugitive slaves and Indians, was taken after siege of several days.

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Jul

27

1816

District of Columbia abolishes slavery

District of Columbia abolishes slavery

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Feb

2

1862

Blacks route a band of slave catchers

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Sep

11

1851

Black Slaves Welcomed Into Amer. Army

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Nov

29

1780

Virginia passes a fugitive slave order penalizing those who assistrunaway slav

Virginia passes a fugitive slave order penalizing those who assist runaway slaves.

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1642

Eli Whitney patented cotton gin

Eli Whitney patented cotton gin which made cotton king and increased demand for slave labor.

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14

1794

La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1864-1868)

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Anthony Jansen, a free new York mulatto, successfullysues a white man for unla

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1654

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1

1863

First Slave revolt in America

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1526

(1797) Prince Hall Speaks To The African Lodge, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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24

1797

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0

1861

Absalom Jones Birth

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6

1746

Massachusetts slaves petitioned the legislature

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6

1773

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22

1791

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0

1660

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Virginia legislature enacts a law declaring that thestatus of the mother deter

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0

1662

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1859

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