1765: Virginia. The statute of 1672 that stipulated that slave master rape babies could be owned for thirty one years was judged severe and reduced to twenty one years for boys and eighteen years for girls.
1765: New England. Irish boy, Matthew Lyon, was sold to a wealthy Connecticut merchant by the british government after the execution of his father for labor organization. He was later sold for two deer.
1768: Maryland. Governor Sharpe describes white Maryland slaves as a “multitude of cattle.”
1768: Florida. A servant uprising at the Turnbull Plantation in New Smyrna requires two warships to suppress.
1769: Virginia. The bastard children of free white women who were unmarried were bound out for twenty one years by the Church wardens.
1769, December 20: Baltimore, MD, formation of the Association of Freemen of Maryland.
1770: Englishman William Eddis describes white slaves in America as “they groan beneath a worse than Egyptian bondage.”
1771: June 5, West Virginia. Marmaduke Van Sweringen captured and adopted by the Shawnee war chief, Pucksinwah.
1773: November, Detroit. census, male population over 10 years old 1,758 men, children under ten 524, adult slaves 85, houses 1,067, an example of an unbalanced population frontier population. The invisible women would be Indian and not counted in the census. You can expect that the adult female Indian population to be 1,067.
1775: Pennsylvania: The first Quaker antislavery society, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, was organized in Philadelphia.
1775: Mathew Lyon, formerly sold for two deer, fought under Ethan Allen as one of the Green Mountain Boys who took Fort Ticonderoga.
1776: Detroit. British pay Indians $50 for each white scalp and $100 for each white captive.
1776: White servants from northern colonies are permitted by order of the continental congress to serve in the continental army. White servants from Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia are not permitted to serve as soldiers.
1776: September 20th, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The continental congress authorized the whipping of american soldiers for up to 100 lashes.
1778: Virginia, Lord Dunmore attempts to raise black troops against colonial rebels.
1781: Maryland. Meshach Browning’s brother is given up as a servant.
1783: Philadelphia. George Washington suggests the policy of flooding the Ohio country with settlers and killing all the game to convince the Indians to cede their land to the United States.
1783: Massachusetts. the Quock-Walker case ruled that slavery was against the state constitution and was equally to blacks and whites.
1784: In Wyoming, Pennsylvania. The last 100 surviving Nanticoke Indians migrate to Ohio.
1784: The transatlantic white slave trade in those colonies from Maryland to Georgia in which white slaves were not free to fight for the revolution resumed at nearly the same volume as before the Revolution.
1782-88: Ohio. 1500 settlers slain descending the Ohio River.
1785: New York. John Jay and Alexander Hamilton organized the New York Manumission Society.
1785: Jeremy Bentham sails with 18 slave girls from Izmer to Constantinople.
1787: July 3, At sea. Ship’s officer, Ralph Clark, describes the beating of white slave, Elizabeth Dudgeon.
1786: Western Maryland. Meshach Browning’s older brother escapes servitude at age 16, four years before his term was up
1787: Philadelphia. U.S. Constitution signed, including compromise to count slaves as 3/5 of a person.
1787: Ohio. The Northwest Ordinance banned slavery in the Northwest Territory.
1787: Northwest Territory[Ohio, Indiana, Illinois]. Ordinance prohibiting white slavery is enacted.
1787: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Article 4, section 2. The US constitution contradicted the Northwest Ordinance and upheld earlier plantation laws regarding the recovery of escaped white property.
1789: Ohio. 20,000 settlers descend the Ohio River in a massive slave exodus.
1789: Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin organized the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.
1791: Ohio. Land companies begin offering $50 a piece for Indian scalps.
1791: Friday, November 4. General St. Clair’s army is annihilated by allied Indians under Blue Jacket, greatest Indian victory over whites in North America. 832 killed and 264 wounded vs. 66 Indians killed and nine wounded. Indian reports of St. Clair’s army indicate that they were primarily composed of hastily trained conscripts, men taken out of prison, and kidnapped patrons of brothels.
1791 Mina Conspiracy.
1791: Western Maryland. Meshach Browning is stolen by his aunt and uncle, who already own a white servants called “young man goon”
1792: Ohio. “Pet” Indian was a widely used term at the time to describe civilized Indians who worked for white employers.
1793: Africa. Olandah Equiano, captured in West Africa as a boy, writes his memoirs.
1793: Philadelphia. The first Federal fugitive slave act provided for the return of black and white servants escaped across state boundaries.
1793: Western Maryland. Meshach Browning was tortured and beaten by his Aunt, who threatened to kill him.
1794: The first national antislavery society, the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, was founded.[//BOLD]
1794: July, Western Pennsylvania. When a U.S. marshal arrived to serve writs to distillers who had not paid the excise. The alarm was raised, and more than 500 armed men attacked the fortified home of tax inspector General John Neville
1795: April, Louisiana. Pointe Coupée Conspiracy, a number of enslaved were arrested at Pointe Coupee for plotting to rise up and kill their masters.
1797: Western Maryland. Meshach Browning’s Aunt attempted to murder him, and was protected in her turn by her “goon” when Meshach—no age 16—counter-attacked. Meshach journeys off on his own makes a place for himself as a paid houseboy and well-regarded hunter. Jealous men from the east threaten to beat him when eh proves a better hunter, demonstrating the universal lot of children, youth, servants, soldiers and even paid hands in early America, which was to be beaten regularly and with severity.
1797: Wheeling, West Virginia. A black woman named Dinah is an indentured domestic servant.
This chronology will be concluded with
Slave Catcher Nation
American Slavery: 1800-1923.
