When Susannah or Susan Slacum was born on 28 April 1800, in Blackwater, Dorchester, Maryland, United States, her father, Job Slacum Jr., was 42 and her mother, Susannah Keene, was 32. She died before 1821, in United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: variant of Slocum .
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