Timeline of African-American Civil Rights Movement - Pre-17th Century

Pre-17th Century

(Information in this section primarily taken from Slavery in Colonial United States.)

1565

  • The colony of St. Augustine in Florida became the first permanent European settlement in what would become the US, and included an unknown number of African slaves.

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