Slavery and Civil War Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1501

    First slaves brought to Spanish Florida

    First slaves brought to Spanish Florida
    It started in 1501, the exact date was not clarified. It lasted unitl 1873.
  • First slaves brought to Virginia

    First slaves brought to Virginia
  • Massachusets

    dates(year is correct, other two dates were nessicary to add event)
    Massachusets was the first colony to leagalize slavery, followed by the New England confederation.
  • Bacon's Revellion

    Bacon's Revellion
    (guess on date besides year)
    Led by Nathaniel Bacon
    Against the Governer William Berkeley
  • Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery

    Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery
    Germantown
    picture from signing of petition
  • New York Revolt

  • The New York Slave Revolt

    It started after the 6th in 1712 and ended in 1719
  • Stono Rebellion

    Stono Rebellion
  • Negro Act

    Negro Act
    (guess on date besides year)
    Happened in South Carolina
  • Vermont abolishes slavery

    The Decloration of Independence encouraged all states to abolish slavery, and Vermont was one of the first.
  • US Constitution

    US Constitution
  • Invention of Cotton Gin

    Invention of Cotton Gin
    It was created by Eli Whittney in 1974, which gave more job opportournities to slaves. It helped abolitionists because it kept slaves busy when they needed to plan how they were going to abolish slavery without everyone knowing.
  • Gabriel Prosser

  • Nat Turner’s Rebellion

  • Importation of Slaves outlawed

  • American Colonizarion Society

    ACS(again guess on dates besides year)/
  • Vesey Conspiracy

    Vesey Conspiracy
  • The Liberator

    The Liberator
    liberator William Lloyd Garrison
    advocated the immediate emancipation of slaves and slavery
  • American Anti-Slavery Society

    American Anti-Slavery Society
    (guess on date besides year)
    Founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
    Frederick Douglass was the main speaker for the society.
  • Founding of Liberia

    Founding of Liberia
    Liberia (Not exact date besides year)
    Joseph Jenkins Roberts, First President of Liberia
  • Free Soil Party

    (exact year)
    1848-1852
    Buffalo, New York
  • Fugeative Slave Act

    Fugeative Slave Act
    Abolitionist nicknamed it Bloodhound Law
    Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
  • 2nd Great Awakening

    2nd Great Awakening
    (definet year)
    religous movement
    members were Baptists and Methodists