What was the underground railroad

Slavery and the Underground Railroad

By j4jenk

  • First United States Census

    First United States Census
    First United States CensusNearly 700,000 slaves live and toil in a nation of 3.9 million people.
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    Slavery and the Underground Railroad

    National Geographic

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    Fugitive Slave ActThe United States outlaws any efforts to impede the capture of runaway slaves.

  • Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin
    Article on Cotton GinThis invention creates a huge demand for slave labor.

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Compromise of 1820Slavery is forbidden in any subsequent territories north of latitude 36_30. Missouri is admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free.

  • Censorship

    Southern states expel abolitionists and forbid the mailing of antislavery propaganda.

  • Frederick Douglass's Newspaper

    Frederick Douglass's Newspaper
    Frederick Douglass NewspaperEscaped slave publishes the North Star.

  • Harriet Tubman Escapes

    Harriet Tubman Escapes
    Harriett TubmanAfter fleeing slavery, she returns to the south 15 times to rescue other slaves.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Compromise of 1850In exchange for California as a free state, northern congressmen accept a harsher Fugitive Slave Act.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
    Uncle Tom's CabinNovel about the horrors of slavery sells 300,000 in one year.

  • Abraham Lincoln Elected

    Abraham Lincoln Elected
    Abraham Lincoln1st Republican to win the United States Presidency.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    Emancipation ProclamationPresident Lincoln decrees that all slaves in Rebel territory are free.

  • Slavery Abolished

    Slavery Abolished
    13th Amendment13th Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery.