Slavery

By eden12345

  • 1816

    proposed the idea of freeing slaves and sending them back to Africa

  • 1820

    allowed Missouri to become a slave state

  • 1830

    organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States

  • 1833

    a white student at Lane Theological Seminary named Amos Dresser was publicly whipped in Nashville

  • 1837

    a pro-slavery mob attacked a warehouse in Alton, Illinois, in an attempt to destroy abolitionist press materials

  • 1850

    Congress passed the controversial Fugitive Slave Act, which required all escaped enslaved people to be returned to their owners and American citizens to cooperate with the captures

  • 1856

    a pro-slavery group attacked the town of Lawrence, which was founded by abolitionists from Massachusetts

  • 1859

    Brown led 21 men to capture the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

  • 1860

    nearly 12,000 African Americans had returned to Africa

  • 1861

    North and the South reached its peak, the Civil War broke out

  • 1863

    calling for the freeing of enslaved people in areas of the rebellion

  • 1865

    the Constitution was ratified to include the Thirteenth Amendment, which officially abolished all forms of slavery in the United States