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Ruth and Isabel are sold
When a slave named Isabel's owner dies , she knows she is supposed to be set free according to the owner's will. Since she cant find a lawyer to help her, she and her sister Ruth are sold to the Lockten's by there previous owners nephew Mr. Robert -
Meeting Curzon
When Isabel and Ruth arrive in New york, Isabel is sent to get water. Curzon offers to help her. -
Maid
Madam Lockton has began to like Ruth so she decides to use her as a personal maid. -
Independence
Continental Congress creates committee to draft a Declaration of Independance (Thomas Jefferson, John adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston) -
The sezuire
Ruth has a sezuire and Madame Lockton wants to sell her but Madam Lockton's husband says Ruth is staying -
Vote
1st vote on Declaration of Independence for Britian's North American colonies -
Ruth was sold to a different faimly
Madame Lockton made sweet milk for Isabel, but drugs it with sleeping medicine so Isabel would sleep heavily when she went out and sold Ruth. -
Branded
Isabel gets into a fight with Madame Lockton for selling Ruth, so Madam got Isabel branded with a I for "Insolence" -
Signing
Formal signing of the US Delclaration of Independance by 56 people -
Arrested
Isabel sees Curzon get arrested by the British for being in the rebel army -
Victory in Battle
General George Washington's revolutionary army defeats British forces at battle Princeton, NJ -
Truth
Madam tells Isabel she didn't really sell Ruth -
River Jordan
Isabel sneaks herself and Curzon across River Jordan -
Freedom
Isabel remembers Curzons in jail -
Flag
US Continental Congress adopts the Star and Stripes replacing the Grand union flag -
Abolishing
Vermont introduces new condtitution making it the 1st US state to abolish slavery -
Civil war begins
The bloodiest four years in American History began when confederate general P.G.T open fired on Fort Sumter -
Gettysburg speech
The Gettysburg address was deliverd by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War -
Civil war ends
The American Civil War was an internal conflict fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. -
Slavery ends
It didn't officially end until Dec. 6, 1865, the day the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. It didn't end on Jan. 1, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation.