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Period: Jan 1, 1528 to
European Explorers bring slaves to the Americas
The slaves were first brought to America by Sir John Yeamans. The most astonishing fact of start of slavery in America was that the first owner of a slave was an Angolan African whose name was Anthony Johnson. -
Cotton gin is invented in U.S
Cotton gin is a machine that was made to spererate cotton from it's seeds. It was invented by Eli Whitney. -
Slavery ends in Great Britain
After the passing of Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, British captains who were caught continuing the trade were fined £100 for every slave found on board. However, this law did not stop the British slave trade. If slave-ships were in danger of being captured by the British navy, captains often reduced the fines they had to pay by ordering the slaves to be thrown into the sea. -
Slavery Ends In Mexico
On December 6, 1810 Father Hidalgo proclaimed the abolition of slavery in Mexico. Later when Jose Maria Morelos assumed command of the revolution he repeated Father Hidalgo's decree on January 29, 1813 -
Amistad Trial
on March 9th 1840, Justice Joseph declared the captives free and gave them the right to go back to Africa. When the captves heard the news they were skeptical at first since they had been freed before. then locked up due to the appeals made by prosecution. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 consisted of five laws that dealt to the issue of slavery. In 1849 California requested permission to enter the Union as free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. -
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The Civil War in the United States of America
In the presedential election of 1860, republicans led by abrahim lincoln opposed expanding slavery into the territories. Lincoln won but before his inauguration on March 4, 1861, seven cotton-based slave states formed the Confederacy -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the U.S. as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holdind interests and Northern Free -Soilers. This way one of the most 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a slave power. -
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
It was an order issued to all segments of the executive branch during the civil war. It was based on the president's contitutional authority as commander in chief of the armed forces; it was not a law passed by the congress. -
U.S. ratifies 13th amendment to the Constitution
The 13 th Amedment to the Constitution declared that " Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been convicted shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the U.S. the 13th Amedment was passed by the congress -
Slavery ends in the US
The thirteenth amendment, abolishing slavery, was passed by the senate in April 1864, and by the hous of representatives in January 1865. But however all the slaves in the US were not freed after the law did not take affect until it was ratifies by 3 fourth of the states. All the slaves were officiallly freed on December 6, 1865 -
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Jim Crow
Jim Crow was the name of a minstrel routine performed beginning in 1828 by it's author, Thomas Dartmouth Rice and by many imiators, including actor Joseph Jefferson. The term came to be a derogatory epithet for blacks and a designation for their segregated life. -
slavery ends in brazil
Slavery in Brazil began in the 16th century, when the Portuguese Empire began to colonize the country. The enslavement of indigenous peoples, and later the large-scale importation of Africans, heavily shaped the country's social structure and ethnic landscape. -
Brown vs. Board of education—U.S. supreme court case
On May 17, 1954, in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Court ended federally sanctioned racial segregation in the public schools by ruling unanimously that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." -
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Civil Right movement for African Americans in the U.S.
The civil right movement was a freedom struggle by African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s to gain equality. the goals of the freedom form discrimination, equal oppurtunity in employment education and housing, the right to vote and equal acess to public facilities. -
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Freedom Riders Movement
The Freedom Riders Movement began when a seamstress named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, her defiance of Jim Crow laws set off the Montgmery Bus Boycott and thrust a young preacher named Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. into the national spotlisght -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmet Till was murdered at the age of 14 due to flirting with a white woman. Emmet was taken by the husband of the woman he was flirting with to a barn and was killed painfully. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
Martin Luther King was assassinated by sniper bullet on 4th of April 1968. King was standing on the balcony when without any warning he was shot. -
Last Country In The World To Band Slavery
The last country in the world that had made slavery illegal was Mauritania. It is a medium-nation located in western African.
