Africans in America | Part 2
1774-1787: Philadelphia is the site of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention.
1780: Pennsylvania declares that all black children born slaves will be freed at age 28.
1750: 61% of all British North American slaves -- nearly 145,000 -- live in Virginia and Maryland, working the tobacco fields.
1750: White slaveowners live in cities like Charleston or Savannah; the majority of the 40,000 slaves live on plantations.
1770: Crispus Attucks is killed in the Boston Massacre.
1775: Peter Salem, a black Patriot, fights at Lexington and Concord.
1780: Elizabeth Freeman wins her suit for emancipation under the new state constitution.
1783: The Quock Walker decision ends legalized slavery in Massachusetts.
1775: Lord Dunmore issues a proclamation offering freedom to slaves who escape Patriot masters and join the Loyalists.
1787: The Northwest Ordinance outlaws slavery in the Northwest Territories.
Rhode Island and Connecticut :
1784: Rhode Island and Connecticut pass gradual emancipation legislation.
1783: Black Loyalists gather in New York City for the British evacuation.
1785: New York State outlaws slavery.
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