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the English launched a full-scale massacre against the Patawomeck and other area Virginia Indian tribes -
Nat turner’s rebellion was a bloody slave uprising in Southampton. In the following weeks, white mobs killed hundreds of Black people in retaliation, and Nat Turner was eventually captured, tried, and hanged. -
declared that people of African descent, whether enslaved or free, could not be citizens of the United States and thus had no right to sue in federal court. -
declared enslaved people in rebellious Confederate states were free, effective January 1, 1863, as a military measure to weaken the Confederacy during the Civil War