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When was slavery introduced?

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Slavery in the US had been practiced for roughly a century before the Revolutionary War.

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The first evidence of slavery in the American Colonies, comes from sales records of the 1640's. The slaves were in the Chesapeake colonies.

The first legal recognition of slavery was a Virginia statute in 1662, which said that the status of a newborn child depended on the status of the mother. If she was free, the child was free; if she was a slave, the child was a slave. This made slavery inheritable.

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It was going on by the 1600s in colonial America.

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