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The New England Confederation of Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven adopts a fugitive slave law.
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Connecticut legalizes slvery.
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Virginia passes the first anti-miscegenation law, forbidding marriages between whites and blacks or whites and Native Americans.
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New York forbids blacks, Indians, and mulattos from walking at night without lighted lanterns so they can see them
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Rhode Island legalizes slavery
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Virginia takes action against slave importation.
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Georgia takes action against slave importation.
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Rhode Island forbids the removal of slaves from the state.
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Black preacher Richard Allen founds the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Congress prohibits U.S. citizens from exporting slaves
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In Pennsylvania the Underground Railroad is officially established.
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Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
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U.S. law declares slave trading to be a capital offense
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Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective leaders of the Underground Railroad.
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inspring book for slaves
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The Dred Scott case holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens.
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Confederacy is founded when the deep South secedes, and the Civil War begins
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"that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate state "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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On June 19 slavery in the United States effectively ended when 250,000 slaves in Texas finally received the news that the Civil War had ended two months earlier
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The Civil War ends and president Lincoln is assassinated. The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery throughout the United States.
