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Slavery is introduced to America
Sometime in 1619, the first known African slaves were brought to America. -
Massachusetts becomes the first colony to legalize slavery
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Bacon's Rebellion
In 1617, black slaves and white servants banded together to rebel against their owners and bosses. -
Slavery made illegal
Within 1787, the northern territories declaired slavery illegal. -
Cotton gin Patented by Eli Whitney
This invention increased the demand of slave labor. -
Underground railroad
Founded in the early 19th century
Between 1850 and 1860 over 100,000 slaves were liberated from their owners and their plantations. -
Importation of slaves prohibited
In 1808, congress passed an act that no new slaves may be brought into the country. -
Fredrick Douglass
Born in Feb. 1818
Died- Feb. 20, 1895
Great orator, Fredrick Douglass was born into the ilitterate social class of slavery. At a young age, Douglass was taught by his slave-owner's wife to read and write. After a change of heart on the part of his teacher, he was determined to continue his studies. Douglass would grow up to write stories of being a slave as well as give speeches that opened the eyes of the non-slave population that slavery was wrong. -
Harriet Tubman
Born in 1820
Died- March 10, 1913
Harriet "Moses" Tubman was one of the most famous former slaves in the 19th century. Called "Moses" because of her actions in helping slaves escape their bonds with the help of others on the underground railroad. -
Uncle Tom's cabin published
Harriet Beecher Stowe's infuluential book about slavery in Louisiana, is published, even though it was thought to be anti-southern propaganda. -
Abraham Lincoln Inaugurated
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Civil war begins
In 1861, The Confederate states of America, susseded from the Union. This sussecion was the spark that officially started the Civil war. -
Emancipation Proclimation
Abraham Lincoln issues his "Emancipation Proclimation" to his cabnet. This Proclimation demanded the imediate release of all slaves in the United States. -
New York Slave laws
New york adds "Slaves are not allowed to trade goods" to it's "Slave Code" which already consisted of laws stripping the rights of slaves, owned and free. -
Abraham Lincoln Assassination
At the Ford theater in Virginia, while attending the play "Our American Cousin", John Wilkes Booth assassinated president Lincoln, only to be found and killed ten days later. -
Civil war ends
After the final surrender; 750,001 casualties, one of which being president Abraham Lincoln; The American civil war officially ends.
