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Slaves are traded from africa in exchange for goods from the colonies.
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First slaves arrived in Virginia
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Bars Fight poem
Lucy Terry becomes the earliest know black american poet, she writes about an indain attack on her village . -
Phyllis Wheatley wrote Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. It was published and she was the first African American to be published.
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Slavery is made illegle in the Northwest territory. The U.S. Constatuttion states that Congress may not ban the slave trade until 1808.
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Slaves would be counted as 3/5 of a citizen when counting a states population.
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Eli Whitney created the cotton gin, wich increased the demand for slavery
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A federal fugitive slave law is enacted, providing for the return of slaves that had escaped and crosseed state lines
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an enslaved African-American blacksmith, organizes a slave revolt intending to march on Richmond, Virginia. The conspiracy is uncovered, and Prosser and a number of the rebels are hanged. Virginia's slave laws are consequently tightened.
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Congress bans everyone from impoprting slaves from Africa.
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The Missouri Compromise bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri
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an enslaved African-American carpenter who had purchased his freedom, plans a slave revolt with the intent to lay siege on Charleston, South Carolina. The plot is discovered, and Vesey and 34 coconspirators are hanged.
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William Loyd Garrison creates one of the first abolitionist newspapers.
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Nat Turner and a group of followers launch a short, bloody rebelion in Southhampton county Virginia. The militia quells the rebelion and hangs Nat Turner. Slave laws become much stricter as a result.
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Frederick Douglass creates the North Star, an abolitionist newspaper.
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Harriet Tubman escapes slavery and helps others to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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California is admited as a free state while Utha and New Mexico are decided by popular soverienty. The slave trade in DC is banned and stricter fugitive slave laws are enforced.
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Harriet Beacher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin, in wich it talks about the harshness of slavery in the south
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Kansas and Nebraska are given statehood and the missouri comprimise is repealed. Tension is renewed between anti- and proslavery factions.
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Congress decideds that slaves are not Citizens.
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John Brown and 21 of his followers attempt to take control of the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry. They fail and Brown is hung.
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The Conferacy is founded when the south secceds from the Union. This starts the Civil War.
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Lincoln passes the Emancipation Proclomation. This declares all slaves in the rebeling states free.
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John Wilkes Booth assassinates Lincoln at Ford's theater.
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The KKK is formed by Ex-confederate vetrans.
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