6th hour timeline project By Trevor Purdon Jan 1, 1828 New York State abolishes slavery Period: Jan 1, 1828 to Dec 31, 1865 Timeline Sep 1, 1829 David walker's Appeal Jan 1, 1831 William Lloyd Garrision publishes The liberator. Aug 23, 1831 Nat Turner led the Slave Rebellion Jan 1, 1833 American Anti-slavery Society formed Sep 7, 1837 Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is murdered Sep 3, 1838 Frederick Douglass escapes slavery and becomes active in the abolitionist cause Jan 1, 1840 Formation of the Liberty Party which ran presidential candidates in 1840 and 1844 Jan 1, 1846 Wilmot Proviso, prohibiting slavery in any territory taken from Mexico, is passed in the House, but defeated in the Senate Jan 1, 1847 Frederick Douglass begins publication of the North Star Jan 1, 1848 Mexican Cession of western territory to the Untied States; North and South resume struggle over the status of slavery in federal territory. Jan 1, 1850 Compromise of 1850; passage of Fugitive Slave Act Jan 1, 1852 Abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin Jan 1, 1854 Passage of Kansas-Nebraska Act "Bleeding Kansas" Formation of the Republican Party Jan 1, 1857 Dred Scott Court Decision Jan 1, 1858 Lincoln-Douglass Debates Jan 1, 1859 Abolitionist John Brown's raid at the federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia Jan 1, 1860 Presidential election of Republican Party candidate, Abraham Lincoln, and the start of the southern secession Jan 1, 1861 The beginning of the Civil War Jan 1, 1863 Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Jan 1, 1865 Thirteenth Amendment is added to the Constitution, which abolishes slavery.
