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The first Africans brought to North America
20-30 enslaved Africans landed at Point Comfort, today's Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia -
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Slavery
Slavery was a period in time when African people were forced to work all day and would be beaten and whipped if they didn't. -
Underground Railroad starts
The underground railroad started in the late 1700s so like 1770s-1790s. -
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The Underground railroad
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David Walker born
David Walker was an abolitionist in the late 1700s and early 1800s. -
Haitian Revolution
In 1793, the Haitian Revolution started and it was one of the biggest slave revolts ever. -
Fugitive slave clause
This was a law where any escaped slaves caught were allowed to be arrested or beaten or all that bad stuff. -
John Brown born
John Brown was an abolitionist born in the 1800s who without slavery wouldn't have been abolished as early. -
Haiti abolishes slavery
In 1793, the Haitian Revolution started and it was one of the biggest slave revolts ever. in 1803 Haiti abolished slavery after all of the revolts and revolutions. -
William Lloyd Garrison born
William Lloyd Garrison was a very impactful abolitionist who wrote The Liberator newspaper which was about anti-slavery. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe born
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American writer best known for the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" written in 1852. -
Frederick Douglas was born
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland in 1818 -
Harriet Tubman was born
Born Araminta Ross, Harriet Tubman was a very important woman in the history of slavery and the Underground Railroad. She would help slaves escape and become free. -
anti slavery acts start
anti-slavery acts started in about 1830 when people started realizing that slavery was bad. -
"The Liberator" Newsletter starts
The Liberator was a newspaper that was a leading anti-slavery newspaper. it was written by William Lloyd Garrison who was an abolitionist against slavery. -
Britain abolishes slavery
on this day Britain outlawed the selling, owning and buying of slaves. -
Frederick Douglas escaped slavery
On September 4 1838 Frederick Douglas escaped slavery and went to NYC at 20 years old. -
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in the fall of 1849 all alone and she went to Philadelphia Pennsylvania. -
John Brown's raid
on October 10, 1859, John Brown led 21 men of the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia -
John Brown dies
on December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged in Charles Town. -
The American Civil War starts
The Civil War was about the morals of slavery. The northern states wanted slaves to be free and the southern states wanted slaves to be "Free". -
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The American Civil War
The Civil War was about the morals of slavery. The northern states wanted slaves to be free and the southern states wanted slaves to be "Free". -
All slaves free
When the slaves were freed, vagrancy laws were made that required all black people or any people who looked homeless in the U.S. no matter if they were free or enslaved before the Civil War, to sign annual labor contracts with white employers. If they didn't, they would be imprisoned or fined. -
Slavery Abolished in the U.S.
The 13th Amendment was adopted as part of the United States Constitution on this date. The amendment abolished slavery, and immediately freed a lot of enslaved people, from Kentucky to Delaware. The language used in the Thirteenth Amendment was taken from the 1787 Northwest Ordinance. -
William Lloyd Garrison dies
William Lloyd Garrison died on May 24 1879 from kidney disease. -
Frederick Douglass dies
Frederick Douglass died of a heart attack on February 20, 1895. He was preparing to make a speech at a church. In his lifetime, he had freed over 400 slaves. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe dies
On July 7, 1896, Harrit Beecher Sowe died from Alzheimer's. she was a very famous author who wrote books about slavery. -
Harriet Tubman dies
Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia on March 10, 1913. In her lifetime, Harriet Tubman had freed about 70 people who were her friends and family. -
David Walker dies
David Walker died on August 6 1930 from Tuberculosis. -
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Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement was a very large event, where people of color wanted to be treated the same as white people. This has a lot to do with the Underground Railroad because there was still a lot of racism left in the world. -
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