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The Massacre at Mystic, also known as the Pequot Massacre or Battle of Mystic Fort, was an attack on May 26, 1637, during the Pequot War where English colonists and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies burned a fortified Pequot village, killing hundreds of men, women, and children. The event took place in what is now Groton, Connecticut, atop a ridge overlooking the Mystic RiveR -
In the early hours of August 22, 1831, an enslaved man named Nat Turner led more than fifty followers in a bloody revolt in Southampton, Virginia, killing nearly 60 White people, mostly women and children. The local authorities stopped the uprising by dawn the next day. -
The Dred Scott Decision of 1857 was a landmark, highly controversial Supreme Court ruling that declared people of African descent could not be U.S. citizens, therefore barring them from suing in federal court. The decision also ruled that Congress lacked the authority to prohibit slavery in U.S. territories, effectively declaring the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and upholding slavery.