Slavery

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  • Tabcoo Crop

    The first tobacco crop is raised in Jamestown, Virginia.

  • Jamestown

    At Jamestown, Virginia, approximately 20 captive Africans are sold into slavery in the British North American colonies.

  • America

    Slaves arrived in america.

  • India company

    The Dutch West India Company imports 11 black male slaves into the New Netherlands.

  • North America's slave trade

    North America's slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier, Desire, is built and launched in Massachusetts.

  • John Punch

    John Punch, a runaway black servant, is sentenced to servitude for life. Punch is the first documented slave for life.

  • New netherlands

    New Netherlands law forbids residents from harboring or feeding runaway slaves.

  • 1641

    Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery.

  • Connecticut

    Connecticut legalizes slavery.

  • Rhode Island

    Rhode Island passes laws restricting slavery and forbidding enslavement for more than 10 years.

  • Virginia

    Virginia makes a law of slavery meaning that a child born to an enslaved mother inherits her slave status.

  • Maryland

    Maryland legalizes slavery.

  • New york & Jersey

    New York and New Jersey legalize slavery

  • Maryland

    Maryland is the first colony to take legal action against marriages between white women and black men.

  • SOuth Carolina

    South Carolina passes the first comprehensive slave codes.

  • Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania legalizes slavery

  • Connecticut

    Connecticut assigns the punishment of whipping to any slaves who disturb the peace or assault whites.

  • Abolition of the slave trade

    The Slave Trade Act 1807 or the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 25 March 1807, with the title of "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade".

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Wilmot Proviso

    The Wilmot Proviso, issued on August 8th, 1846 by Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman David Wilmot, was an amendment to Democratic President James K. Polk's appropriation bill for the funding of newly acquired territories.

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Toms Cabin

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • 1855 – 1861

    1855 – 1861

  • John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry

  • Court case

    Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case