1651

Oliver Cromwell shattered the remaining Royalist forces and ended the War of the Three Kingdoms. England’s monarchy is suspended.

The Navigation Act required the colonies to pay duties on all exports and that goods must be transported on English ships and have English crews before continuing to a foreign harbor.

Anthony and Mary Johnson, first recorded blacks to own land in America, receives 250 acres of land in Northampton County on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

Rhode Island passes laws restricting slavery and forbidding enslavement for more than 10 years.

First written mention of slaves being imported into Montserrat.