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Jan 1, 1442
The British introduced to African American slaves
Portuguese sailors returned from the western coast of Africa with a cargo of gold dust from traders and ten captured African American slaves. And because of the trading between Portuguese and England, African slaves were introduces to the British for the first time. -
Slavery in Jamestown, Virgina
In Jamestown, Virgina twenty African American slaves are first brought to and sold in the British North American colonies. Befor this there where only indentured servents and a few slaves brought from England. -
Law agenst harboring slaves
law forbids residents from harboring or feeding runaway slaves -
Connecticut legalizes slavery.
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Rhode Island abolishes slavery.
RI was the first state to abolish slavery. They were the first to do so. -
Rice planting increases Slavery
rice calture incereases in california. Slaves are imported dramaticly to farm rice. This movement brought many more slaves into the states. Slavery became part of everyday life. -
British parliment
passed a bill prohibiting slave trade -
Slaves escape on the Underground Railroad
in the time between 1810 and 1850 many white and black people began helping slaves escpae north. Betewwn 1810 and 1850 the south lost over 100,000 slaves to the underground railroad. -
Nat turner 1831
led an uprising in south ampton/ virginia -
Population of Slaves
The poulation of slaves was at four million. They were in an environment where they were literally treated as property. -
Abraham Lincoln is eleceted president.
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Blacks Rejected from Northern Army
75,000 blacks were rejected from the Northern Army even though they were fighting against the south for civil rights. -
Civil War
The Civil War officially begins in Charleston, South Carolina. This war occurred because the north and south opinions of slavery differed greatly. The farther north you were, the safer you were. since America as a whole didn't agree, the Civil War broke out. -
Montgomerey Bus Boycott
This was a boycott on the buses because Rosa Parks didn't want to sit in the back of the bus. She sat in the front and got arrested. Most if not all blacks boycotted the buses until they had the right to sit wherever they wanted to on the bus. -
March on Washington
Around 250,000 people participated in this march for jobs and freedom in Washington D.C. It was the first rebellious march to have constant news coverage on T.V. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
4 black girls were killed in a attack on a black church.The attack, done by members of the Klu Klux Klan, was a turning point in the civil rights movement.It contributed to the passage of the civil rights act in 1964. -
Barack Obama Became President
Barrack Obama was elected president of the United States November 4, 2008. On January 20, 2009 he was sworn into office. He was the first ever African American president of the United States becuase of previous segregation/ violence/ inconvenience towards African Americans. -
Harriet Jacobs Book
Harriet Jacobs' INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL is the first published autobiography of an African-American woman in 1861.
