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Jan 1, 1500
Middle Passage
During the Middle Passage, people owned by another as a piece of property. Also, this was the largest forced migration in the history of the world. Ten to twelve million were transported to work as slaves and 15% Died on ships. -
Act XII
This Act is broken down to two segments. The first deals with children born to Africa and African American women in the Virginia colony. Second is the issue of sexual intercourses between Africans and Anglo-Americans. -
Enlightenment
European Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Reason) was the center of ideology. This was taken back in Renaissance secularism and humanism in the 15th century. Issac Newton "Principia Mathematica" gave a new way of perceiving human beings and their universe. So, John Locke created an application of Newton's ideas to politics. Locke maintained that human society, like the physical universe ran according to natural laws. -
Stono Rebellion
Largest slave uprising in the British North Amerian colonies in South Carolina. The governer promised freedom and land to slaves who fled their British owners. Then the slaves formed a free black militia. About 100 Africans killed a lot of Euro-Americans near Stono River and marched to Florida. This frightned slave owners so they imported fewer African slaves, tightned plantation discipline and created the Negro Laws. -
Slave Rebellion
A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves. Slave rebellions have occurred in nearly all societies that practice slavery, and are amongst the most feared events for slaveholders. During the 16th and 17th centuries, runaway serfs and kholops known as Cossacks formed autonomous communities in the southern steppes. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon didn't want the Indians taking their land so he wanted to kill the Inidians (friendly or not). So, he and his men destroyed Jamestown, the capital of Virginia by burning it. Bacon fought the Indians without the governer's permission. Berkeley was against Bacon's ideas but was forced to along until the day Bacon died is when he killed most of Bacon's followers. -
Africans in America
British did not support the idea of independence, they were against the Americans (wanted them to follow their rules), but France wanted Indpendence. The "freedom fever" was a time when Africans tried to gain freedom. Europeans tried to be called "Americans" but they were not free. The Revolutionary War inspired blacks to fight for their freedom. British were sympathetic to their cause, whites did not think freeing blacks was a good idea. -
Drafting the Declaration
It was drafted by a salveholder in a slaveholding country. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Ben Franklin fought for the rights of whit men from British and a lack of rights for blacks. They believed that blacks should not have the same rights as whites. -
Crispus Attucks
Crispus Attucks was a black fugitive slave for 20 years who escaped in 1750 at 22 years old from Framingham MA. Attucks shared the anti-British sentiment that developed after the French and Indian War. He took the lead in confronting Captain Thomas Preston and 9 soldiers and got killed. Samuel Adams and other Patriots in Boston declared that Attucks was the first martyr to British oppression. His coffin is honored in Faneuil Hall. -
Olaudah Equiano - Arrival in the Americas
Olaudah Equino was a abolition campaigner and former slave who wrote an autobiography where he describes his experiences on arrival in the Americas. He was an prominent African involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade. He was enslaved as a child, purchased his freedom, and worked as an author, merchant, and explorer in South America, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the American colonies, and the United Kingdom, where he settled by 1792. -
England abolished slavery
In 1807, England abolished slavery becasue they had come to terms with how brutal and harsh slavery was. English had transported 1.7 million Africans. And in 1830, 2 million Africans were sold to Britain. So, the slavery spreads to the Americas. Jefferson signs the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves into law in the U.S. which took effect 1 January 1808.
1807, 25 March: Abolition of the Slave Trade Act abolishes slave trading in British Empire. Captains fined £120 per slave transported. -
Negro Laws
The British Congress promised Africans land and freedom if they shipped british men back and forth but they denied because of the hard work and labor. So the congressman made the Negro Laws which is law telling Africans that they are not allowed to read, write and get a loan for their jobs.
