Inspired 1601-1700
Black History Timeline
1606
Enslaved Africans in Brazil establish a maroon settlement known as ‘Palmares’.
1619
August 20. The first blacks (twenty Africans) arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, aboard a Dutch ship.
1623
Queen Nzingha becomes Monarch of Ndanga (Angola) and goes to war with the Portuguese. She ruled until 1663.
1624
January 3. William Tucker, the first African child is born in the US.
1627
Professor Ahmed Baba, (the greatest scholar of the 16th century) dies.
1641
Massachusetts was the first colony to legalize slavery.
1652
The Dutch establish a colony at Cape of Good Hope, South Africa; and the ‘Boers’ (farmers or Afrikaners) begin to settle there.
1655
1,500 enslaved Africans flee to the Jamaican mountains and set up Maroon communities.
1663
September 13. The first documented attempted slave rebellion took place in Gloucester County, Virginia.
December 17. Queen Nzingha of Angola (the warrior queen) dies.
1664
Maryland was the first state to try to use the law to prevent white women and black men marrying.
1666-1776
3 million slaves imported (250,000 died on route).
1672 CE
Charles the II of England engages in slave trading.
1680-1786
2,130,000 slaves were imported for the English colonies in America. Jamaica took 610,000.
1682
Prophetess Kimpa Vita of Kongo is born. She is founder of Black Liberation Theology. She died in 1706.
1688
February 18. The Quakers in Pennsylvania organized the first formal protest against slavery.
1695
King Zumbi of Palmares is killed by the Portuguese.
November 20. Palmares is destroyed
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