The first slaves in the United States sang work songs, and field hollers.

Prior to the end of the slave trade and widespread abolition, when indigenous labour was unavailable, slaves were often imported to the Americas, first by the Spanish Empire, and later by the Dutch, French and British.

In 1501, the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand I and Isabella, first granted permission to the colonists of the Caribbean to import African slaves, which began arriving to the island in 1503.

The first major slave revolt in the Americas occurred in Santo Domingo during 1522, when slaves led an uprising in the sugar plantation of admiral Don Diego Colón, son of Christopher Columbus.

Georg Wissowa proposed the explanation that it might be because the first slaves of the Romans must have been Latins of the neighbouring tribes.

He regularly admitted women and slaves into his school and was one of the first Greeks to break from the god-fearing and god-worshipping tradition common at the time, even while affirming that religious activities are useful as a way to contemplate the gods and to use them as an example of the pleasant life.

" A man of honor, Ashley became a soldier in grey in the Confederate States Army though he says he would have freed his slaves after his father's death, if the war hadn't done it first.

Although Haiti actively assisted the independence movements of many Latin American countries – and secured a promise from the great liberator, Simón Bolívar, that he would free their slaves after winning independence from Spain – the nation of former slaves was excluded from the hemisphere's first regional meeting of independent nations, held in Panama in 1826.

Governor William Sayle prepared for the uprising with three edicts: the first was that a nightly watch be raised throughout the colony ; second, that slaves and the Irish be disarmed of militia weapons ; and third, that any gathering of two or more Irish or slaves be dispersed by whipping.

* 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

Within the first week, about sixty slaves were able to run away into the forests ; only about twenty of them were eventually recaptured.

* 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes " African Slavery in America ", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

The earliest record of Native American and African contact occurred in April 1502, when Spanish colonists transported the first Africans to Hispaniola to serve as slaves.

* 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.

The first Bluetooth device in the piconet is the master, and all other devices are slaves that communicate with the master.

Creoles, meanwhile, developed in settlement colonies in which speakers of a European language, often indentured servants whose language would be far from the standard in the first place, interacted extensively with non-European slaves, absorbing certain words and features from the slaves ' non-European native languages, resulting in a heavily basilectalized version of the original language.

In 1818, whilst admitting that nowhere in the world did slavery exist in a milder form than on St Helena, Lowe initiated the first step in emancipating the slaves by persuading slave owners to give all slave children born after Christmas of that year their freedom once they had reached their late teens.

It began as a colony of freed American slaves on March 11, 1792, Blacks voted for the first time in elections, as did women.

In 1652 the first slaves in North America were brought from Sierra Leone to the Sea Islands off the coast of the southern United States.

* 1871 – Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the eradication of slavery in Brazil.

The maritime town of Lagos, Portugal, Europe, was the first slave market created in Portugal ( one of the earliest colonizers of the Americas ) for the sale of imported African slaves – the Mercado de Escravos, opened in 1444.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

Hastings, a former British Army officer, first meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a police officer in Belgium and almost immediately after they both arrive in England.

The first to arrive was Émile Levassor in his Panhard-Levassor 1205cc model.

Only the first 6000 to arrive were admitted and paid, with the red rope now used to keep latecomers at bay.

* 1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.

* 1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.

The first clashes took place on 2 August, but little action took place for several days, as the King waited for all his forces to arrive and Essex waited for the fleet.

Rumours of a battle first appeared in the French press as early as 7 August, although credible reports did not arrive until 26 August, and even these claimed that Nelson was dead and Bonaparte a British prisoner.

John Caesar, nicknamed " Black Caesar ", was one of the first people of recent African descent to arrive in Australia.

They are the first recorded Africans to arrive in London at the time, and were considered luxury servants.

The first European Americans to arrive in what is known as Eagle Valley were John C. Fremont and his exploration party in January 1843.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.

Sally Durant Plummer, " blond, petite, sweet-faced " and at 49 " still remarkably like the girl she was thirty years ago ", a former Weismann girl is the first guest to arrive ; her ghostly youthful counterpart moves towards her.

There is special treatment of the first two pixels that arrive before the table grows from its initial size by additions of strings.

These first whales to arrive are usually pregnant mothers looking for the protection of the lagoons to bear their calves, along with single females seeking mates.

He was the twelfth and last of the Apollo astronauts to arrive and set foot on the Moon, as Apollo 17 crewmate Eugene Cernan exited the Apollo Lunar Module first.

The Germanic Goths and Asiatic Huns were the first to arrive, invading in mid-century ; the Avars attacked in AD 570 ; and the Croatian tribes invaded in the early 7th century.

" By waiting until the first clone is among us or about to be born, we complicate the problem immensely and guarantee that we will not be able to have the national and international conversation and debate to arrive at particularly good decisions like using protection.

Perhaps the first Bantu speakers to arrive in present day Zimbabwe were the makers of early Iron Age pottery belonging to the Silver Leaves or Matola tradition, third to fifth centuries A. D., found in southeast Zimbabwe.

* 1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.

* 1917 – The first U. S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain and France against Germany in World War I.

* 2002 – The first twenty captives arrive at Camp X-Ray.

As one of the first delegates to arrive, while waiting for the convention to begin, Madison wrote what became known as the Virginia Plan.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: the first 4, 000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.

On the spot where the plane crashed, a memorial dedicated to the victims stands surrounded by a wire fence with wooden posts ; it was maintained for many years by James Easter Heathman, who, at age thirteen in 1931, was one of the first people to arrive at the site of the tragedy.