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Slavery Enters America
The slaves enter America along with the British settlers as they create the Jamestown settlement. -
Northerners Change Their Ways
After the Revolutionary War, some Northerners made the connection of how slaves were treated to how the American people were treated by the British and called for slavery's abolition. -
The Underground Railroad
Antislavery northerners and free blacks helped slaves escape southern plantations through a loose network of safehouses known as the Underground Railroad. This rocks the South's economy and loosens the countries grip on the binds of slavery even further. -
The Three-Fifth's Compromise
The 3/5's compromise was reached during the U.S Constitutional Convention of 1787. This compromise gave 3/5's of every African American as a place in determining representation in the House. This gave slavery a new life, a political life. -
The Cotton Gin
The invention of the Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney proved the importance of slavery in the Southern Economy. -
The Missouri Compromise
Under the Missouri Compromise, the state of Missouri was admitted into the U.S as a slave state and Maine as a free state. All territories north of Missouri's southern border were free soil. This compromise maintained a balance between slave and free states; evening the playing field for proslavery and antislavery citizens. -
The Abolition Movement Gains Ground
White Abolition authors, William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe, take the slave market by storm with their antislavery works. Garrison published the Radical newspaper, The Liberator, and Stowe published the bestselling antislavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Put popular soverignty ahead of congressional edict; leading to a clash in the state of Kansas between the pro- and anti- slavery parties. This lead to the downfall of the Whig Party in the north and the birth of the Republican party soon followed. The war of slavery has gradually gotten more and more violent. -
A Nation Divided
The Civil War set the real battle for the future of Slavery. The South seperating from the North and becoming the Confederate States of America. This was the climax of the slavery problem, by which it was a goal only later in the war, for the North,to abolish slavery forever. -
The Thirteenth Amendment
Slavery was finally abolished in late 1865 with the 13th Amendment. This goal had finally been achieved over two hundred years of fighting for equality of African Americans.
