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			1614 John Smith maps New England
1634 John Endecott defaces King's colors
			1648 Massachusetts executes Margaret Jones
1661 George Bishop, "New England Judged"
			1675 King Philip's War
1683 Mary Rowlandson's narrative
			1702 John Hale publishes "A Modest Inquiry"
1770 Boston Massacre
			1770 Phillis Wheatley, "Elegy for George Whitefield"
1773 Massachusetts slaves begin petitioning for freedom
			1773 Phillis Wheatley, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"
1774 John Malcolm tarred and feathered
			1776 Samuel Hopkins, A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans
1776 Abigail Adams urges John to "Remember the Ladies
			1818 John Trumbull's painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence displayed at Faneuil Hall
1825 John Winthrop's "History of New England" reprinted
			1829 David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
1831 John Greenleaf Whitter, "Legends of New England"
			1831 Maria Stewart begins public speeches condemning slavery.
1833 John Greenleaf Whittier joins the abolitionist cause.
			1833 Lydia Maria Child, "An Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans"
1834 Shoebinders of Lynn, Massachusetts form a society "for the protection and promotion of Female Industry"
			1834 Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship"
1836 John Warner Barber , "Historical Collections of Connecticut"
			1836 Eliza Susan Quincy portrays procession at Harvard's 200th Anniversary
1837 John Sibley publishes story of Washington Elm
			1839 Amistad trial in New Haven
1841 Amistad case argued before the Supreme Court
			1842 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery
1842 With the encouragement of his friend Charles Sumner, Longfellow publishes "Poems on Slavery
			1845 Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative.
1847 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Supernaturalism of New England"
			1850 Fugitive Slave Act
1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
			1854 Anthony Burns arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act
1857 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Skipper Ireson's Ride,"
			1857 Dred Scott Decision
1859 Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing
			1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in rebellious states
1865 13th Amendment outlaws slavery
			1866 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Snowbound"
1873 Anne Whitney wins competition to create a sculpture of Samuel Adams for the United States Capitol.
			1880 John Greenleaf Whittier writes poems about Quaker persecution.
1881 Controversy over John G. Whittier's "The King's Missive"
			1910 John F. Fitzgerald mayor of Boston
1926 John D. Rockefeller funds Colonial Williamburg in Virginia
			1953 Arthur Miller, "The Crucible"
1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated
			2003 Boston Women's Memorial features Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, and Lucy Stone