African-Americans in the Cotton Kingdom: 1760C.E - 1860C.E

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  • Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave, is the first person to die in the American Revolution.

  • Jean Baptiste Point DuSable decided to build trading post near Lake Michigan, thus becoming the first permanent residdent of the settlement that became Chicago.

  • Phillis Wheatley publishes first bookof poetry.

  • Vermont is the first state to abolish slavery.

  • The Continental Congress forbade slavery in the region northwest of the Ohio River by the Northwest Ordinance

  • Slaves revolt in Haiti against the French rulers and slave owners.

  • Benjamin Banneker publishes the first almanac by an African-American.

  • Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin

  • Congress passes the first Fugitive Slave Act.

  • The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is founded in New York City.

  • United States purchases Louisiana Territory from France

  • Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.

  • The Missouri Compromise bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri.

  • The first African-American theater company in the United States, the African Company, is founded in New York.

  • In New York, John Brown Russwurm and Samuel Cornish publish the first African American newspaper in the U.S., Freedom's Journal.

  • 1831-1861: Height of activity for the Undergrond Railroad

  • Slave rebellion of Nat Turner.

  • Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrisons starts to publish The Liberator, a fiercly anti-slavery newspaper, in Boston.

  • Henry Blair is the first African American to receive a patent.

  • Frederick Douglass publishes his autobiography, narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave.

  • Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective leaders of the Underground Railroad.

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

  • Booker Taliaferro Washington is born.

  • Dred Scott case declares that African Americans are not citizens o the U.S., and that congress has noo power to restrict slavery in any federal territory.

  • John Brown and 21 followers capture the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

  • harriet Wilson publishes Our Nig; Or Sketches from the Life of a Free, the first novel by an African American woman.

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected president.