Roots-Timeline

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  • Fredrick Douglass Born

  • Fredrick Douglass Escaped From Slavery

  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

    All citizens of the U.S. now required to help in the capture of runaway slaves.

  • Slave Trade Illegalized in DC

    Part of the Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

  • Secession of Southern States

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Passed by Abraham Lincoln

  • End of Civil War

  • Lincoln Assasinated

  • 13th Amendment

  • Fredrick Douglass Died