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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.

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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