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Slaves exploited to work
During the 17th and the 18th centuries, black people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa and were forced to work. They worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indingo plantations of the southern coast (Chesapeake Bay colonies..) -
The beginning of slavery
The privateer The White Lion brought twenty African slaves in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia -
the Beginning of the Triangular Trade
It's the triangular trade which led the slave trading. Until then, for centuries, Africans have mainly been taken across Sahara to arab countries, where they become slaves. -
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The abolition of slavery in the north of US
Between 1774 and 1804, all of the northern states abolished slavery, but so-called "peculiar institution" of slavery remained absolutely vital to the South -
Invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney, a young Yankee schoolteacher, invented the cotton gin in Georgia which is a simple mechanized device that efficiently removed the seeds. His device was widely copied. -
Prohibition of the African slave trade
The U.S Congress outlawed the African slave trade ; the domestic trade flourished, and the enslaved population in the U.S nearly tripled over the next 50 years. -
the Underground Railroad
Free blacks and other antislavery notherners had begun helping enslaved people escape from southern plantations to the North via a loose network of Safe Houses as early as the 1780s. This practice known as The Underground Railroad, gained real momentum in 1830s -
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Abolistionist movements
In the North, the increased repression of southern blacks only fanned the flames of growing abolitionist movement.
From the 1830s to the 1860s, the movement to abolish slavery in America gained strengh, led by free blacks (such as Frederick Douglass and white supporters such as Harriet Beecher Stowe who published the novel Uncle's Tom Cabin) -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Slave rebellions did occur within the system ; they wanted to show that they are equal to whites and they aren't inferior that them.
The revolt that most terrified white slaveholders was that led by Nat Turner in Virgina in August 1831. Turner's group, which eventually numbered around 75 blacks, murdered some 60 whites in 2 days before armed resistance from local whites and the arrival of state militiar forces overwhelmed them -
The expansion of the cotton growing
Especially in the South, Africains worked on the cotton fields. By 1860, it had reached nearly 4 million, with more than half living in the cotton-producing states of the South -
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American Civil War
The Civil War was fought in 1861 after decades of tensions between the southern and northern states over slavery, westward expansion and state rights. The election of Abraham Lincoln as President, caused eleven states to secede from the Union beginning with South Carolina and form the Confederate States of America. -
the Emancipation Proclamation
On September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation and on January 1, 1863, he made it official that "slaves within any State, or designated part of a State... in rebellion.. shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"
The Emancipation Proclamation made free software some 3 million enslaved people.
Though the Emancipation Proclamation didn't officially end all slavery in America... -
the Abolition of Slavery
The 13th Amendment established by Abraham Lincoln, adopted on December 18, 1865, officially abolished slavery, but freed blacks status in the post-war South remained precarious, and significant challenges awaited during the Reconstruction period.
Previously enslaved men and women received the rights citizenship and the "equal protection" of the Constitution in the 14th Amendment and the right to vote in the 15th Admendment, but these provisions of Constitution were often ignored or violated...
