1. In 1641 which of England’s American colonies became the first to recognize slavery as a legal institution?

2. In 1865 which state became the first of the former Confederate states to enact laws, known as black codes, that severely limited the rights and liberties of Black people?  

3. What year did Kentucky ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which was ratified by three-fourths of the U.S. states in 1865?

4. Which of the American colonies’ courts decided that a child born to an enslaved mother was automatically enslaved?

5. Which of the American colonies had the largest enslaved population by the 18th century?

6. What year did the Massachusetts Bay Colony pass laws differentiating slave labor from the contract labor of indentured servants, taking away the rights of enslaved people?

7. What year were enslaved Africans first brought to Virginia, beginning a long-term slave trade between Africa and English (later British) North America?

8. By 1775 how many of the 2.5 million inhabitants of Britain’s 13 American colonies were enslaved?

9. In 1829 free Black people living in which two U.S. states could be charged with a crime and sentenced to death for distributing antislavery materials there?