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Which provision was not included in the U.S. Constitution of 1787?

How were some urban slaves able to live independently of their owners?

What did the Code Noir, or “Black Code,” in French colonies permit slave owners to do to their slaves?

From where did most of the African Americans who served with loyalist forces during the American Revolution come?

Why did the Dutch import enslaved workers to New Netherland in their early years of settlement?

Crispus Attucks died protesting the presence of British troops in the colonies because

In the free black town of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida, runaway slaves

By the 1660s, the colonial elite of the Chesapeake

What kind of work did Middle Atlantic slaves do in English colonies?

As in the Stono Rebellion of 1739, slave revolts and conspiracies often resulted in: