African American History

  • African Servants

    African Servants
    A ship that is dutch brings 20 African servants to the english colony.
  • Tobacco Colonies

    Tobacco Colonies
    80,000 Africans arrived in the tobacco colonies and more African Americans were born into slavery.
  • Carolina Low country

    Carolina Low country
    The Carolins low country had 40,000 slaves who constituted 90 percent of the population in the region around Charleston.
  • Slavery in Northern colonies

    Slavery in Northern colonies
    African Americans constituted 10 percent of the population of Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
  • Nat turner

    Nat turner
    Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion in Virginia, 57 whites were killed and soon later Nat was capured and killed.
  • Slaves Aboard ship

    Slaves Aboard ship
    The African American slaves aboard Amistad and killed there captians and ship navigators. They killed them becuase they thought they were going back home to Africa which they sailed them to Long Island.
  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman
    One of the first African american women to escaoe slavery and becomes a leader in the under ground rail road.
  • Free Slaves

    Free Slaves
    The Black codes are passed by Southern states stating the right of newly freed slaves