History: Slavery's History

  • The Middle Passage
    1518

    The Middle Passage

    The middle passage was was a trade route in the Atlantic ocean that went from north America to south America to England, it was the trade system that brought slaves to America. This was the main trade route for America.
  • The Underground Railroad

    The Underground Railroad

    It was a system of secret routes and safe house to the north from the south that helped enslaved people escape to freedom. It was estimated to help about 100,000 people
  • Fugitive Slave Clause

    Fugitive Slave Clause

    It was a part of the constitution that states that slaves will be returned to their master, and that the government was responsible for bringing them back and trying the.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    To control the power balance between free and lave states, the Missouri compromise was written up. It declared main as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. There wan an imaginary line that was drawn at 36º 30' latitude that basically banned slavery above that line
  • Nat Turners Rebellion

    Nat Turners Rebellion

    It was a rebellion let by Nat turner. It was a bunch of enslave Americans that went out and killed about 60 people. It led to the law being passes that restricted enslaved people from gathering, movement, and education.
  • Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott Case

    It was a case that laid out that having lived in a free state did not entitle a enslaved person. Scott was the person to try and make this case that because he had lived on free land he was exempt from slavery, that it why it was named after him.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    it was 5 separate bills passed by the United states congress that diluted confrontation between slaves and free states. It also cleared up a lot about the territories that were acquired during the Mexican- American War. One of the bigger things was that California entered the union as a free state.
  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    Uncle Toms Cabin

    It was a anti-slavery novel published in 1852 that ended up having a very profound effect on the way people say slavery in the United States. Some even say i helped lay the groundworks for the civil war
  • Bleeding Kansas (Kansas- Nebraska act)

    Bleeding Kansas (Kansas- Nebraska act)

    Bleeding Kansas was a bunch of violent outburst between pro-slavery people and anti-slavery people in Kansas. Kansas Territory settlers were granted popular sovereignty, allowing them to vote on whether the territory should be joined to the Union as a slave or free state. The result of bleeding Kansas was that Kansas turning into a free state.
  • John Brown's Raid

    John Brown's Raid

    John brown lead a small group of 18 men into a small town in Virginia. It was an effort to instigate a major slave rebellion in the south. The raid on the farm they were fighting on ended in failure
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    It was a proclamation that was issued during the 3rd year of the civil war that stated that "all personals held as slaves" in the rebellious states will be freed.

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