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Largest slave revolt in Barbadian history. Bussa led the slave rebellion and then was defeated by the British forces.
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Allowed Missouri to become a slave state and provoked the anti-slave movement in the North.
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The movement began as a more organized productive campaign. This new and improved campaign awakened people to rise up about slavery and make a change.
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In Britan, the Parliament abolished slavery in most British colonies. This act freed more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribean, South Africa and a small number in Canada.
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Elijah Parish Lovejoy was killed by a pro-slavery mob whilst defending his anti-slavery newspaper named the St Louis Observer. His tragic death affected people that were opposed to slavery. This tragedy strengthened the idea of abolition.
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Congress passed the very controversial Fugitive Slave Act. This act required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their rightful owners and American Citizens were forced to cooperate with this act.
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In America, they wanted to make a change and an end to slavery and copied some of Britans abolishment tactics in order to do so.
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A pro-slavery group attacked the town of Lawrence which was founded by abolitionists from Massachusetts. After this abolitionist, John Brown organized a raid and killed 5 pro-slavery settlers.
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Indian Mutiny began the first war of independence and was an unsuccessful rebellion against the British in India.
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John Brown led 21 men to capture the U.S arsenal at Harpers Ferry. He and his followers were captured by a group of Marines. John Brown was hung for the crime.
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Abraham Lincoln got elected to become President and made a pledge opposing the spread of slavery.
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The struggle between the North and the South reached its peak and the civil war broke out.
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Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation started.
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In 1865, the Constitution was ratified to include the Thirteenth Amendment, which officially abolished all forms of slavery in the United States.
