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The first American colony to legally recognize slavery was...

Massachusetts. Pennsylvania. Virginia. Georgia.

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Massachusetts was actually the first colony to legally recognize slavery.

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Slavery was not wide spread.  Enslaved people worked as: farmers and other manual laborers, artisans, shipping dockhands, and household servants.

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The correct answer is A) Massachusetts.

The first American colony to legally recognize slavery was Massachusetts.

It was in 1641 in Massachussetts, when this English colony became the first to recognize slavery as a legal institution. After this happened, the colony of Connecticut accepted slavery in 1650. As other colonies saw this, they also legalized slavery. This was the case of Maryland in 1663, and New Jersey and New York in 1664.

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