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Timeline and Events
Explore Slavery, Law, and Power’s selected documents within the context of time periods and events.
17th Century
1693 Monmouth Rebellion
The Bloody Assizes
“A New Martyrology: OR, THE Bloody Assizes: NOW Exactly Methodized in one Volume.
Comprehending A Compleat History of the Lives, Actions, Trials, Sufferings, Dying Speeches, Letters, and Prayers of all those Eminent Protestants, Who fell in the West of England, and elsewhere, From the Year 1678, to this present time.”
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18th Century
1765-1783 American Revolution
1773
Benjamin Rush – An Address to the Inhabitants of British America
An address to the inhabitants of the British settlements, on the slavery of the Negroes in America. To which is added, A vindication of the address, in answer to a pamphlet entitled, “Slavery not forbidden in Scripture; or, A defence of the West India planters.”
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19th Century
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