Milestones in Black History By Rcomishock 1619 African Endentured Servants Brought to Jamestown, VA, 1619 Mar 5, 1770 Boston Massacre 1775 Thomas Paine Publishes Anti-Slavery Tract 1776 Declaration of Independence 1782 Revolutionary War, 1775-1782 1787 Northwest Ordinance, 1787 1789 U.S. Constitution Adopted 1793 First Fugitive Slave Act 1820 The Missouri Compromise 1831 Nat Turner Slave Revolt 1850 The Compromise of 1850 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation, 1862 & 1863 1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875 1991 Civil Rights Act of 1991 2008 Obama Election and Presidency
