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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Wheatley)
Phillis Wheatley’s book Poems on Various Subjects , Religious and Moral appears. This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phillis_Wheatley_frontispiece.jpg -
American revolution begins
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Declaration of Independence Ratified
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Treaty of Paris: American revolution ends
Treaty of Paris: American revolution ends The U.S. Diplomacy Center exhibition page states All materials in this exhibition are in the public domain and can be reproduced without permission. (Source http://diplomacy.state.gov/exhibitions/100935.htm) Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PreliminaryTreatyOfParisPainting.jpg -
"Notes on the State of Virginia" (Jefferson) Published in Paris
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Haitian revolution
Most successful of all slave revolts in this hemisphere, establishes Haiti as an independent, black republicmost successful of all slave revolts in this hemisphere, establishes Haiti as an independent, black republic. -
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Gabriel Prosser and several thousand other slaves attempt to seize control of Richmond, VA
Gabriel Prosser and several thousand other slaves attempt to seize control of Richmond, VA, by slaying all whites (except for Methodists, Quakers, and Frenchmen) and then to establish a kingdom of Virginia with Prosser as king. -
by this time, all northern US states had passed laws of gradual emancipation that freed all northern slaves by 1829.
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Slave trade from Africa outlawed; slaves could no longer be imported legally into US
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Harriet Jacobs born into slavery in North Carolina
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Frederick Bailey, later Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in Maryland.
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Denmark Vesey rebellion
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Jefferson dies
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George Moses Horton’s The Hope of Liberty
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David Walker dies, perhaps because of murder
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Nat Turner’s rebellion
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Britain emancipates slaves in its colonies in the West Indies; American Anti-slavery Society organized.
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Frederick Bailey (Douglass) escapes slavery; marries Anna Murray, whom he met when she was a free black woman working as a domestic in Baltimore
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Amistad incident
Spanish ship carrying slaves imported from Africa between Havana and another Cuban port taken over by slaves, steered north by a white they relied on for navigation. The slaves were taken into custody in New Haven. Spain wanted mutineers tried for piracy. Case went to US Supreme Court, with John Quincy Adams arguing for their freedom on grounds slave trade illegal in both Spain and US. Adams won his case. The Africans were sent home. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:La_Amistad_%2 -
Douglass begins career as anti-slavery orator with Massachusetts anti-slavery society
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Douglass begins North Star (later Frederick Douglass’s Paper), anti-slavery paper
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Compromise of 1850; Fugitive Slave Law requires northerners to return escaped slaves to their owners
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Douglass publishes My Bondage and My Freedom
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Dred Scott decision
Supreme Court rules that any person descended from black Africans, whether slave or free, is not a citizen of the United States; slaves had no claim to freedom; they were property. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DredScott.jpg This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1923. -
John Brown’s raid, Brown raided arsenal at Harper’s Ferry,
Leading an attempt to establish a republic of fugitive slaves in the Appalachians and wage war on slave states; Brown and his followers seized the arsenal, killed the mayor, took prisoners, and holed up to defend themselves. Five survivors, incl. Brown, taken prisoner; Brown tried and hanged. (Douglass invited to participate; refused, but later fled to Canada, then England, for fear of being arrested for suspected participation.)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IncidentsInTheLifeOfASlaveGirl.jpg -
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US Civil War
US Civil War This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g02088 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Gettysburg,_by_Currier_and_Ives.png -
Emancipation Proclamation declares slaves in Confederate states free
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Lincoln assassinated
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14th amendment ends slavery
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KKK organized
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Ratification of 15th amendment guaranteeing black (male) suffrage
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End of Reconstruction: all northern troops withdrawn from South; all former Confederate states again under their own control
End of Reconstruction: all northern troops withdrawn from South; all former Confederate states again under their own control -
Douglass publishes The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Douglass publishes The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Source: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/dougl92/title.html -
Douglass dies
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Plessy v Ferguson: Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of segregation even in public places under doctrine of “separate but equal”
Plessy v Ferguson: Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of segregation even in public places under doctrine of “separate but equal” Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plessy_marker.jpg -
Harriet Jacobs dies
Harriet Jacobs dies Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harriet_Ann_Jacobs1894.png This media file is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923.
