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people are kidnapped from Africa
Africans are enslaved and forced to work, mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast, from the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Maryland and Virginia south to Georgia. -
start of the slavery in America
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slavery is abolished in all of the northern states
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Free blacks and other antislavery northerners help enslaved people in the south
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
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slave rebellion led by Gabriel Prosser in Richmond
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Congress outlawed the African slave trade
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slave rebellion led by Denmark Vesey in Charleston
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the movement to abolish slavery in America gain strength
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slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia
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end of slavery
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enslaved population reach 4million
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CIVIL WAR
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Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation,
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Reconstruction era
rebirth of white supremacy, including the rise of racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) -
13th Amendment and official abolition of slavery
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civil rights movement