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New York State abolishes slavery
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Timeline
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David walker's Appeal
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William Lloyd Garrision publishes The liberator.
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Nat Turner led the Slave Rebellion
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American Anti-slavery Society formed
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Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is murdered
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Frederick Douglass escapes slavery and becomes active in the abolitionist cause
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Formation of the Liberty Party which ran presidential candidates in 1840 and 1844
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Wilmot Proviso, prohibiting slavery in any territory taken from Mexico, is passed in the House, but defeated in the Senate
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Frederick Douglass begins publication of the North Star
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Mexican Cession of western territory to the Untied States; North and South resume struggle over the status of slavery in federal territory.
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Compromise of 1850; passage of Fugitive Slave Act
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Abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Passage of Kansas-Nebraska Act "Bleeding Kansas" Formation of the Republican Party
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Dred Scott Court Decision
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Lincoln-Douglass Debates
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Abolitionist John Brown's raid at the federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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Presidential election of Republican Party candidate, Abraham Lincoln, and the start of the southern secession
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The beginning of the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
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Thirteenth Amendment is added to the Constitution, which abolishes slavery.
