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English settlers in Virginia purchase 20 Africans from a Dutch ship.
English settlers in Virginia purchase 20 Africans from a Dutch ship. The Africans were sold as indentured servants, not slaves. The distinction being an indentured servant may ultimately become free for working for some number of years. It was not long before all Africans arriving were treated as slaves, bought and sold into a lifetime of slavery for them and their descendents. -
The first organized
The first organized protest against slavery in the new world was drafted by a group of Quakers in Germantown, PA. Known as the Germantown Protest, it argued that Christians should do as they would want to be done to them, that slavery was essentially theft as you were buying something stolen and that adultery is wrong yet slave traders/owners forced adultery on men and women by breaking up marriages when they resold husbands and wives to different owners. -
In the town of Stono, South Carolina a band of slaves starts an insurrection
In the town of Stono, South Carolina a band of slaves starts an insurrection. Previous runaway slaves had made their way to Florida, where they had been given freedom and land. The Spanish had issued a proclamation stating that any slave who deserted to St. Augustine, Florida would be given freedom. -
elegates debated whether Congress should halt importation of slaves.
At the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, delegates debated whether Congress should halt importation of slaves. South Carolina and Georgia delegates threatened that their states would not join the new Union being planned and won concessions that the slave trade could could not be restricted for 20 years. -
ongress show a total population
The results of the first national census as ordered by Congress show a total population of 3,893,874 including 694,207 slaves or 18% of the population. Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont have no slaves. 43% of the population in South Carolina are slaves and 39% for Virginia and 35% for Georgia. -
Vermont
Vermont becomes the fourteenth state and enters the Union as a free state. It was the first state to be admitted after the adoption of the Constitution by the 13 original states. -
census show a total population
The results of the 1800 census show a total population of 5,084,912 .Slaves are virtually non-existent in northern states and as high as 42% in South Carolina and 39% in Virginia. August - Slave Gabriel Prosser leads a group of armed slaves in rebellion. His plan involved seizing Capitol Square in Richmond, Virginia and taking Governor James Monroe as a hostage, in order to bargain with city authorities for freedom. -
ensus show a total population
10,037,323 of the population. Slaves are virtually non-existent in northern states and as high as 51% in South Carolina and 45% in Louisiana.March - The Missouri Compromise is negotiated allowing Maine to be admitted to the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in 1821. This act will maintain a balance between free and slave states. The compromise establishes the 36 degree, 30' parallel of latitude as a dividing line between free and slave areas of the territories. -
south corolina secedes from union
South Carolina convention passes ordinance of secession thus seceding from the Union. The Declaration of Secession for South Carolina states, "We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. -
confederate forces fire on fort sumter
The Battle of Sumter was an artillery bombardment of the Sumterian garrison, the first battle to officially begin the American Civil War. After seven South American states announced their secession from the Union, South Carolina asked the Northern Army to withdraw from its bases at the port of Charleston. -
confederate forces retreat after battle of shiloh
Two days of heavy fighting conclude near Pittsburgh Landing in western Tennessee. The Battle of Shiloh became a Union victory after the Confederate attack stalled on April 6, and fresh Yankee troops drove the Confederates from the field on April 7. -
abraham lincoln signed emancipation racially motivated riots break out in new york
The riots in New York City (July 13, 1863), known as Draft Weeks, [3] were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, considered the culmination of the floor's discontent. White-labor class with new law passed by Congress that year to outline men fighting in the ongoing US Civil War. The riots are still the largest racist and urban disturbance in American history. -
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861, 65), for which he was recognized for his outstanding military strategy as well as for criticizing the harshness of policies. the fire he carried out during waged war against the Union nations [2] -
confederate general robert E .lee surrenders
The Battle of the Appomattox Building, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War (1861 Story 1865). It was the last involvement of the Commander-in-Chief of the Union, Robert E. Lee and his Northern Virginia Army before it surrendered to the Army of Potomac under the commander-in-chief of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.