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Beginning of slavery
The privateer The White Lion brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia -
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Abolition of slavery in the northern states
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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
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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
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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
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Preliminary emancipation proclamation by Lincoln
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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