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First slaves
20 africans were captured and sold -
Practice of slavery
The practice of slavery becomes a legally recognized institution in British America. Colonial assemblies begin to enact laws known as slave codes, which restrict the liberty of slaves and protect the institution of slavery. -
Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
Pennsylvania allowed the future children of the slaves to be free.This act becomes a model for the other northern states. -
Cotton Gin Increase Slave Labor
A woman named Eli Whitney invention of a cotton gin was released to get cotton 10 times faster than using hands which influenced slave owners to buy more slaves to pick up more cooton to produce more cotton to sell. -
Slave trade act of 1807
The Slave Trade Act was an Act of Parliament made in the United Kingdom passed on 25 March 1807, with the long title "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade".The act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself. -
Missouri Law/Compromise
States that no black people free or slave could leave their masters property without permission and,or, a written pass. This event was later passed as a law and was an event that lead to the American Civil War. -
Mexico outlaws slavery
It was not until 1829 that the last slaves were freed. -
1850 Compromise/Fuguitive Slave Act Law
This event is about the time when Northerns and Southerns came to a compromise that fuguitive slaves found in the free states had to be returned to their owners if found. -
Dred Scott case
The U.S. Supreme Court decides the Dred Scott case. In the majority opinion, Chief Justice Roger Taney rules that Scott is still a slave with no standing to sue; that black Americans (slave or free) are not citizens and do not have civil rights protected by the U.S. Constitution; and that neither the territorial government nor the federal government can ban slavery in the territories, thus making the Northwest Ordinance and Missouri Compromise bans unconstitutional. -
13 Amendment
Congress passes the proposed 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which bans slavery in the entire United States. -
3/5ths Compromise
this event happened during the years of making the constitution when the representatives of all states came to a compromise that every three slaves would count as five free people when being counted in the population.
