Time line of slavery

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    Work

    Africans worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast
  • Slavery started

    -North America turned to African slaves
    /cheaper
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    SLAVERY

    271 years
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    Abolution of slavery

    All of the northern states abolished slavery, but the so-called “peculiar institution” of slavery remained absolutely vital to the South.
  • Help enslave people

    Free blacks and other antislavery northerners had begun helping enslaved people escape from southern plantations to the North via a loose network of safe houses as early
  • The cotton gin

    Yankee schoolteacher named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a simple mechanized device that efficiently removed the seeds.
  • Slave rebellions

    Slave rebellions did occur within the system—notably ones led by Gabriel Prosser in Richmond
  • Congress outlawed the African slave.

    But the enslaved population in the U.S. nearly tripled over the next 50 years.
  • Slave rebellions

    Slave rebellions did occur within the system—notably ones led by Denmark Vesey in Charleston
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    Repression

    The movement to abolish slavery in America gained strength, led by free blacks such as Frederick Douglass and white supporters such as William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the radical newspaper The Liberator, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, who published the bestselling antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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    The Underground Railroad

    This practice, known as the Underground Railroad, gained real momentum
  • The worst revolt

    The revolt that most terrified white slaveholders was that led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia;
  • population grow up

    Iit had reached nearly 4 million, with more than half living in the cotton-producing states of the South.
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    Civil war

    Though Lincoln’s anti-slavery views were well established, the central Union war aim at first was not to abolish slavery, but to preserve the United States as a nation.
  • Proclamation of Lincoln

    Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation
  • "End" of SLAVERY and SEGRAGATION

    He made it official that “slaves within any State, or designated part of a State…in rebellion,…shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
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    SEGREGATION

    99 years
  • The 13th Amendment, adopted

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    "FREE"

    56 years
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    Resistance

    Almost a century later, resistance to the lingering racism and discrimination in America that began during the slavery era would lead to the civil rights movement, which would achieve the greatest political and social gains for blacks since Reconstruction.