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. On February 24 2007 the Virginia General Assembly passed House Joint Resolution Number 728 acknowledging "with profound regret the involuntary servitude of Africans and the exploitation of Native Americans and call for reconciliation among all Virginians". With the passing of this resolution Virginia became the first state to acknowledge through the state's governing body their state's negative involvement in slavery the passing of this resolution was in anticipation of the 400th anniversary commemoration of the founding of Jamestown Virginia (the first permanent English settlement in North America) which was an early colonial slave port Apologies have also been issued by Alabama Florida Maryland North Carolina and New Jersey, The Library of Congress is one of the world's largest libraries with more than 167 million cataloged items. . Snakes of the Potomac River Basin American advocates of independence were commonly lampooned in Great Britain for what was termed their hypocritical calls for freedom at the same time that many of their leaders were planters who held hundreds of slaves Samuel Johnson snapped "how is it we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of the Negroes?" Benjamin Franklin countered by criticizing the British self-congratulation about "the freeing of one Negro" named Somersett while they continued to permit the overall slave trade. Phyllis Wheatley was a black poet who popularized the image of Columbia to represent America She came to public attention when her Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral appeared in 1773, This rebellion prompted Virginia and other slave states to pass more restrictions on slaves and free people of color controlling their movement and requiring more white supervision of gatherings in 1835 North Carolina withdrew the franchise for free people of color and they lost their vote. On April 14 1865 just days after the end of the war Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth during the play Our American Cousin the next morning at 7:22 AM President Lincoln died in the house across the street the first American president to be assassinated Secretary of War Edwin M Stanton said "Now he belongs to the ages" (or perhaps "angels") the residents and visitors to the city experienced a wide array of reactions from stunned disbelief to rage Stanton immediately closed off most major roads and bridges and the city was placed under martial law Scores of residents and workers were questioned during the growing investigation and a handful was detained or arrested on suspicion of having aided the assassins or for a perception they were withholding information, Southeast Africa (Macua Malagasy) 1.8 vte, Crispus Attucks was an iconic patriot; he was fatally shot by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre of 1770 and is thus considered the first American killed in the Revolution.

Main articles: Battle of Brandywine Battle of Germantown and Battle of Saratoga, Further information: Legacy of George Washington Cultural depictions of George Washington and Historical rankings of presidents of the United States. . 10.1 Transportation USS Constitution 4.5 Valley Forge and Monmouth Despite the ban slave imports continued through smugglers bringing in slaves past the U.S Navy's African Slave Trade Patrol to South Carolina and overland from Texas and Florida both under Spanish control. Congress increased the punishment associated with importing slaves classifying it in 1820 as an act of piracy with smugglers subject to harsh penalties including death if caught After that "it is unlikely that more than 10,000 [slaves] were successfully landed in the United States." But some smuggling of slaves into the United States continued until just before the start of the Civil War; see Wanderer (slave ship) and Clotilde (slave ship)!