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A Dutch ship carrying about 20 African to the colony Virginia as indentured servant, this is the first time slavery get into America.
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John punch, a Virginian black servant, escaped from his master, sentenced to a lifetime slavery by Virginia court.
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in south Carolina,largest Slave uprising in British mainland colonies, 21 white and 44 black died.
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United state declares that all man are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with some unalienable right, but slavery are still legal in colonies.
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Vermont, an American colony and still not a state, is the first government entity to abolish slavery.
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Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.
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Massachusetts abolished slavery and granted voting right to black.
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Congress counted slaves as three fifth of a person, and any law that prohibit the importation of slaves will not be approved within 20 years.
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Eli Whitney receives patent for the Cotton Gin. The machine greatly increased the production of cleaned cotton thus making cotton a more profitable crop for the first time and increasing the need and production value for slaves.
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every state had banned the international slave trade, although South Carolina reopened it in 1803
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George Washington dies on December 14, 1799. His will frees the 124 slaves that he owns outright upon the death of his wife, Martha. They are freed by Martha in 1801, about 18 months before her death
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Slave Gabriel Prosser leads a group of armed slaves in rebellion. His plan involved seizing Capitol Square in Richmond, Virginia and taking Governor James Monroe as a hostage, in order to bargain with city authorities for freedom. Ultimately Gabriel, along with many followers, were captured and executed.
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at Chatham Manor, near Fredericksburg, Virginia, slaves overpowered and whipped their overseer and assistants in protest of shortened holidays. An armed posse of white men quickly gathered to capture the slaves, killing one slave in the attack. Two others died trying to escape and the posse deported two others, likely to slavery in the Caribbean.[
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Virginia repeals much of the 1782 law that permitted more liberal emancipation of slaves, making emancipation much more difficult and expensive. Also, a wife can revoke a manumission provision in her husband's will within one year of his death
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Congress admit Missouri as slave state and admit Maine as a free state, and draw a line through unincorporated western territories, dividing north and south as free and slave.
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Thomas Cooper of South Carolina publishes On the Constitution, an early essay in favor of states' rights
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The State of New York abolished slavery, which shows their perspective toward the slavery.
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Congress again raises tariffs with the Tariff of Abominations. The tariffs are designed to support American industry and in that way are successful greatly benefiting the northern industrial economy, however the tariffs are damaging to the southern agricultural economy.
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David Walker was the author, a black abolitionist and supporter of a violent end to white supremacy, this kind of thought will make the end of this conflict more violent.
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The Supreme Court of North Carolina ruled that slave owners had absolute authority over their slaves and could not be found guilty of committing violence against them.
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a black abolitionist and civil rights organization, is founded.
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A black slave named Turner and about 70 other slaves incited an uprising that spread through some plantations in Virginia. killed about sixty white people, was turned down by militia 2 days after the rebellion, all sentenced to die and some 200 more were killed or lynched by crazy mobs.
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Thomas R. Dew writes Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832, a strong defense of slavery and attack on colonization in Africa by freed slaves
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President Andrew Jackson, a Southerner and slave owner, calls nullification "rebellious treason" and threatens to use force against possible secessionist action in South Carolina caused by the Nullification Crisis. Congress passes the "Force Bill" which permits the President to use the Army and Navy to enforce the law. Jackson also urges Congress to modify the tariff, which they soon do
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Lane Theological Seminary expelled a group of students and a professor after a debate about slavery, which will further increase the gap between anti-slavery and pro-slavery.
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Anti-Slavery "debates" are held at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lane had been founded by abolitionist evangelist and writer Theodore Dwight Weld with financial help from abolitionist merchants and philanthropists Arthur Tappan and Lewis Tappan.
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In Alton, Illinois, a mob kills abolitionist and anti-Catholic editor Elijah P. Lovejoy, whose paper angered Southerners and Irish Catholics.
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Kentucky Congressman William J. Graves kills Maine Congressman Jonathan Cilley in a duel, further division between two sides.
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Written by Theodore Dwight Weld, an abolitionist figure. again, will cause the problem to be more serious.
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Slaves revolt on the Spanish ship Amistad; ship winds up in U.S. After a highly publicized Supreme Court case argued by John Quincy Adams, the slaves are freed in March 1841; most return to Africa. More slaves start to fight for their freedom.
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Massachusetts and eight other states pass personal liberty laws under which state officials are forbidden to assist in the capture of fugitive slaves.
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Autobiography, told how Douglass escaped slavery and went to North, make people more aware of the problem from slavery.
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Former U.S. Representative and Governor of South Carolina, and future U.S. Senator, James Hammond writes Two Letters on Slavery in the United States, Addressed to Thomas Clarkson, in which he expresses the view that slavery is a positive good, further widen the gap of understanding on slavery between two sides.
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James D.B. DeBow establishes DeBow's Review, the leading Southern magazine. DeBow warns against depending on the North economically.
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With the treaty of Guadalupe, American has western territories as their prize, but the question of whether consider them as free or slaved became a problem.
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Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland. She reportedly returned to the South 19 times and brought out more than 300 slaves. kind of gives the perspective of slaves,
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The California Gold Rush suddenly populates Northern California with Northern and immigrant settlers who outnumber Southerner settlers. California's constitutional convention unanimously rejects slavery and petitions to join the union as a free state without first being organized as a territory. President Taylor asks Congress to admit California as a free state, saying he will suppress secession if it is attempted by any dissenting states
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This act forced any federal official who don't arrest a runaway slave to pay a fine, which lead to a great controversial.
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A book talking about the evil side of the slavery, greatly changed the point of view for the northern people about the Slavery, Abraham Lincoln admit this book as one of the event that lead to the outbreak of civil war.
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This act enabled people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they are slave or free by public sovereignty.
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As Kansas prepares for elections thousands of Border Ruffians from Missouri enter the territory in an effort to influence the election. This begins the Bloody Kansas period with duplicate constitutional conventions, separate elections and constant and violent attacks.
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A group of radical abolitionists, lead by John Brown, kill 5 people in Kansas. Makes the problem worth on both side.
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A pro-slavery congressman attacked Charles Summer(Who had just give a speech attacking the pro-slavery force) on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
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Dred Scott tried to proving he should be free because he had been held as a slave in a free state, but the course decide that slave was it's owner's property. This decision further stimulate abolitionist to fight against slavery which lead to the civil war.
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Lindon and Douglas debate for the legislature of Illinois, all 7 debate about slavery, Lincoln lost, and he published those debate in to books.
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John Brown leaded a small band of white allies and free blacks to raid a government arsenal, but forced by soldiers to surrender and the been executed. Southern state began to militarize to prepare for future conflict.
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Abraham Lincoln's party's anti-slavery outlook spread fear to southern states, on December 20, the same year, South Carolina has secede from the union, then 6 more states followed the step.
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The Confederate States of America is formed with Jefferson Davis, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, as president.
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Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins.
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James Pemberton, leaded the Quakers to create the first anti-slavery society in Philadelphia.
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Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child of Massachusetts publishes An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Wendell Phillips and Charles Sumner are persuaded to become abolitionists. To show the problem of slavery.
