Slavery Timeline

Slaves arrived in America

Jan 19, 1619

Reaching the Americas the crew of slave ships prepared the Africans for sale.

Slave trade abolished

Mar 25, 1807

Because of this event, the British House of Lords passes an Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

Missouri Compromise

Mar 30, 1820

The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rialries triggered by the request of Missouri.

Wilmot Proviso

Aug 8, 1846

This was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War.

Compromise of 1850

Jan 29, 1850

This was a package of five seperate bills passed by the united States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year poltical confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican American War.

Compromise of 1850 : Southern

Sep 1, 1850

This was when California was admitted as a free state in 1850.

Fugitive Slave Law

Sep 18, 1850

This law was to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

Mar 20, 1852

This book that was published is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

May 30, 1854

This allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves wheter or not to allow slavery within their borders.

Bleeding Kansas

Mar 30, 1855

This was a series of violent political confrontations in the united States involving anti-slaveyr "Free-staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Mar 6, 1857

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry

Oct 17, 1859