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1788 - The Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves.

 

1804 - Haiti achieves independence from France.

 

1808 - The slave trade is outlawed in the United States.  This stopped

            the legal importation of African slaves, but did not stop 

            domestic trading in slaves.

 

1831 - William Lloyd Garrison publishes the first issue of "The 

            Liberator" in Boston, Massachusetts.  The newspaper will become

            a major influence in the movement to abolish slavery in the

            United States.

 

1856 - Bridget "Biddy" Mason and her children are granted their freedom 

            by the California courts.  After gaining her freedom, she will 

            move to Los Angeles, where she will become a major landowner and


            be known for her philanthropy to the poor.

 

1863 - President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation,

            declaring freedom for slaves living in the states that joined 

            the rebellion that will become known as the Civil War.

 

1900 - The British protectorates of Northern & Southern Nigeria are 

            established.

 

1916 - The first issue of the "Journal of Negro History" is published

            with Carter G. Woodson as editor.

 

1917 - Ulysses Simpson Kay is born in Tucson, Arizona.  He will become

            a classical composer and one of the first American composers

            to travel to the Soviet Union.  He will be known for his works

            for orchestra, piano, and chamber ensemble.

 

1956 - Sudan becomes independent.

 

1959 - Chad becomes an autonomous republic within the French Community.

 

1960 - Cameroon gains independence from France.

 

1962 - Rwanda is granted internal self-government by Belgium.

 

1964 - The Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland is dissolved.

 

1973 - The West African Economic Community is formed with Benin, Ivory 

            Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Upper Volta as

            members.

 

1986 - Aruba becomes an independent part of Kingdom of the Netherlands.

 

1990 - David Dinkins is sworn in as first African American mayor of 

            New York City.

 

2005 - Shirley Chisholm, an advocate for minority rights who became the 

            first African American woman elected to Congress and later the 

            first African American to seek a major party's nomination for 

            the U.S. presidency, joins the ancestors at the age of 80.  The 

            Rev. Jesse Jackson calls her a "woman of great courage."


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