<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island" id="mwUA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a> becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.<sup about="#mwt50" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_13#cite_note-8" id="mwUQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUg">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt47" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFJoseph_Nathan_Kane1950">Joseph Nathan Kane (1950). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nqUEAAAAYAAJ" id="mwByw" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBy0">Famous First Facts: A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries and Inventions in the United States</i></a>. H. W. Wilson. p.<span id="mwBy4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>420.</cite><span about="#mwt47" class="Z3988" id="mwBy8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Famous+First+Facts%3A+A+Record+of+First+Happenings%2C+Discoveries+and+Inventions+in+the+United+States&amp;rft.pages=420&amp;rft.pub=H.+W.+Wilson&amp;rft.date=1950&amp;rft.au=Joseph+Nathan+Kane&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DnqUEAAAAYAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJune+13"></span></span>