Slavery timeline

By Cmurphy20

  • slaves arrive in America

    About 19 slaves arrive.

  • Slave trade abolished

    Slave trade was abolished

  • Figutive slave act

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Wilmot Proviso

    The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War it went on untill 1848.

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

    It was anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War"

  • Bleeding Kansas

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case

    Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court.

  • John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry

    Harper's Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.