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| Samuel Sewall's The Selling of Joseph is the first anti-slavery book, condemning slavery and refuting the typical justifications for slavery |
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| Parliamentary Sovereignty |
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| In the concept of parliamentary sovereignty, a legislative body has absolute sovereignty, meaning it is supreme to all other government institutions—including any executive (government) or judicial bodies. |
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| A meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. |
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| She was the first African American poet and first African-American woman to publish her writing |
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| free African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author and farmer... he was most famous for his almanac. |
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| inhabitants of British America of African descent who joined British colonial forces during the American Revolutionary War |
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| African Americans who remained loyal to the American side during the American Revolutionary War |
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| Was among the first black slaves in Massachusetts to file a "freedom suit" and win in court under the 1780 constitution, with a ruling that slavery was illegal. It effectively abolished slavery in the state of Massachusetts |
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| n international religious movement which focusses on the priesthood of all believers, and that fought against slavery |
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| "Hired on their own time" |
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| was signed on 10 February 1763, by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. It ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. |
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| was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America. |
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| was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. Established by a resolution of the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775, it was created to coordinate the military efforts of the Thirteen Colonies in their revolt against the rule of Great Britain. The Continental Army was supplemented by local militias and other troops that remained under control of the individual states. General George Washington was the Commander-in-Chief of the army throughout the war. |
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| were legal petitions filed by slaves for freedom in the United States and its territories before the American Civil War, including during the colonial period. Most were filed during the nineteenth century. |
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| Gradual Abolition or the act of gradual abolition |
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| the first attempt by a government in the Western Hemisphere to begin an abolition of slavery. They did this by making slave owners register their slaves, and that all people born in the state is free regardless of race. |
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| was an American slave who sued for and won his freedom in June 1781 in a case citing language in the new Massachusetts Constitution (1780) that declared all men to be born free and equal. The case is credited with helping abolish slavery in Massachusetts, although the 1780 constitution was never amended to prohibit the practice. It was the second state after Vermont to end slavery. |
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| Cuffee built a lucrative shipping empire and established the first racially integrated school in Westport, Massachusetts and he and his brother John cuffee led blacks back to Sierra Leone. |
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| The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. |
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| A French Abolitionist that founded the anti-slavery society, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. |
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| Non-Black citizens of any country that fought for the ending of slavery. |
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| an act deserving of praise, reward, or honor. Prior to 1782 meritorious service was a required condition for manumission. |
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| the act of releasing a person from slavery, usually done by the slave’s owner. |
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| A servitude agreement that allowed slaves to "buy" their own slavery. |
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| was founded in California in April 1787, the first black mutual aid society in the city. The leaders were Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, free blacks whose goal was to create a non-denominational religious organization to serve the spiritual, economic and social needs of Philadelphia's African-American community. |
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| African Methodist Episcopal |
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| it was founded by the Rev. Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816 from several black Methodist congregations in the mid-Atlantic area that wanted independence from white Methodists. Allen was elected its first bishop in 1816. |
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| The first AME church established. |
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| Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It was settled by 1000 slaves coming from london, england and Thomas Peters started the expedition. |
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