Slavery in America

By Emilinef

  • Beginning of slavery

    The privateer The White Lion brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia
  • Period: to

    Abolition of slavery in the northern states

  • Beginning of the Underground Railroad

    Free blacks and antislavery northerners had begun helping enslaved people escape from southern plantations

  • Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin

  • Slave rebellion

    Led by Gabriel Prosser in Richmond

  • Prohibition of the African slave trade

    By the U.S. Congress

  • Slave rebellion

    Led by by Denmark Vesey in Charleston

  • Gain momentum of the Underground Railroad

  • Period: to

    The movement to abolish slavery in America gained strength

    It was led by black people like Frederick Douglass and white supporters like William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia

    The most terrifying for the white slaveholders (60 whites killed by 75 blacks)

  • The tarde reached 4 millions of people

    More than the half were from the South

  • Abraham Lincoln was elected as president

  • Preliminary emancipation proclamation by Lincoln

  • Lincoln made the emancipation proclamtion official

    He freed 3 millions enslaved people

  • 13th Amendment

    End of slavery

  • Triumph of white supremacy in the South

    Rise of racist organizations (the Ku Klux Klan)

  • Civil Rights movement

    Political and social gains for blacks