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New Slave Laws
The New England Confederation of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven adopts a fugitive slave law. -
More states legalize slavery
Connecticut legalizes slvery. -
Marriage rights
Virginia passes the first anti-miscegenation law, forbidding marriages between whites and blacks or whites and Native Americans. -
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New york law
New York forbids blacks, Indians, and mulattos from walking at night without lighted lanterns so they can see them -
Rhode Island slavery
Rhode Island legalizes slavery -
Virginia rebells
Virginia takes action against slave importation. -
Georgia takes action
Georgia takes action against slave importation. -
Rhode Island takes action
Rhode Island forbids the removal of slaves from the state. -
chruch founded supporting slaves
Black preacher Richard Allen founds the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Congress forms new laws
Congress prohibits U.S. citizens from exporting slaves -
Underground Railroad in Pennslvania
In Pennsylvania the Underground Railroad is officially established. -
Slave imports band
Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa. -
slavery a offense
U.S. law declares slave trading to be a capital offense -
Harriet tubman
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective leaders of the Underground Railroad. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
inspring book for slaves -
Dredd Scott case
The Dred Scott case holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens. -
civil war
Confederacy is founded when the deep South secedes, and the Civil War begins -
Emancipation Proclamation,
"that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate state "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Slaves freed
On June 19 slavery in the United States effectively ended when 250,000 slaves in Texas finally received the news that the Civil War had ended two months earlier -
civil war ends Union victory
The Civil War ends and president Lincoln is assassinated. The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery throughout the United States.
