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Period: Jan 25, 1528 to
History of the Atlantic Slave Trade in America
african slavery was already a well known fact. legacy states that when a white person seeks a dark skinned, the first purpose of the dark skinned man will be to be a slave.
Estevanico a moroccan slave, arrived to florida from a spanish group in 1528, and was known for the first frican American and the first American Muslim. he worked as a guide and translator, therefore his job have him a high social class, which very few of other slavess goud get -
slavery ends in Russia
the slaves in russia were working as household servants, for the richest families, and at times (most of the time) they produced less than they consumed. Laws forbade the freeing of slaves in times of famine, to avoid feeding them, and slaves generally remained with the family a long time. Slavery in Russia was abolished in 1723, when Peter the Great converted the household slaves into house serfs. -
slavery ends in great britain
It took 46 years, between 1787 and 1833, for Britain to outlaw the slave trade and abolish slavery throughout its colonail land. 1833 was a new beggining for many of the British citizens . -
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amistad mutiny and trial
The Amistad Case is one of the most important to ever come before US courts. It proved that many influential people in the United States were in favor of abolishing slavery on the whole. -
compromise of 1850
the compromise of 1850 are the five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of sslaves. California requested permission to enter the Union as a free state, potentially upsetting the balance between the free and slave states in the U.S. Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in an attempt to see a compromise and avoid a crisis between North and South. etc. -
fugitive slave act
was passed by the United States Congress, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. it heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy". also it declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters. -
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Civil War in America
The Civil War is one of the most major events in America. the Civil War helped determined what kind of nation it would be. -
signing of the emancipation proclamation in U.S.
The Emancipation Proclamation is an order issued to all the Army and Navy of the United States by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. I It proclaimed all those enslaved in Confederate territory to be forever free, and ordered the Army. -
slavery ends in the united states
slavery was going one all around the U.S. 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. -
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution stated that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865. -
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Jim Crow laws
the laws had to do with racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy. it was a "separate but equal" status for African Americans.The separation in practice led to conditions for African Americans that tended to be inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. -
Brown v. Board of Education
it was a court case in which the Court declared state laws creating separate public schools for black and white studens. however on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. -
Freedom riders
freedom riders were civil rights activists who rode buses into the seperate southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decisions Boynton v. Virginia.The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961, and was supposed to arrive in New Orleans on May 17 -
martin lutehr king assassination
was assassinated on 4 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee while giving support to a sanitation workers' strike. He was shot by James Earl Ray, his bullet struck King as he was standing on his balcony at the Lorraine Motel -
cotton gin is invented in the US
the first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793. A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, makking the work with much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. -
last country to ban slavery
the last country to ban slavery was Mauritaniain 2007, it made it illegal to own slaves
