slavery timeline

By rastamonkey714

  • slave trade

    The African slave trade of 16th-18th century did not appear suddenly overnight; it grew over a period of time driven by the "economic interests" of merchants and businessmen; and it was sanctioned by their representatives in government

  • 3/5 compromise

    The three-fifths compromise was the outgrowth of a debate that had taken place within the Continental Congress in 1783. The Articles of Confederation had apportioned taxes not according to population but according to land values.

  • northern states

    Northern free states were concerned that the economy developing was relying too much on slavery. They believed that if they relied on this system for too long they would never be able to get off it.

  • slave conditions

    Up to 200 slaves were held on the ground floor of the slave traders houses, packed into cells according to sex and age. The cells were damp, with very little air and practically no light. Children aged six to seventeen were forced to sleep on the floors of their cells, packed like sardines in a box.
    Captives were viewed not as humans, but as a commodity. They were assessed by their physical attributes for men, their muscles, the length of their arms, the whiteness of their teeth. For women and

  • anti slavery quotes

    No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the "Laws thereoy, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be done"

  • missouri compromise

    In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

  • fugitive slave act

    The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.

  • Dredd Scott

    Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.

  • introduction

    Before the fourteenth amendment to the national constitution (July 28, 1868), blacks held no legal rights in this country.