Sickness and Health in African American History

By FEBarrett
  • 1521

    First rebellion of enslaved people in Dominican Republic

  • Period: 1526 to

    Transatlantic Slave Trade

  • Beginning of Slave Trade in the U.S.

  • Elizabeth Key sues for her freedom and wins

  • Laws of Virginia, 1662 - parts sequitur ventrem

    Virginia passed a law in response to Elizabeth Key's court case establishing that the conditions of the child (ie - their free or enslaved status) would follow that the mothers. This differed from English common law which stated that this status would be determined by the father.

  • GlaxoSmithKline established in London - linking pharmaceutical to the slave trade

  • Smallpox epidemic in Boston

    Onesimus and the smallpox inoculation - an enslaved person, Onesimus, assisted in the development of the inoculation of smallpox with his knowledge from his homeland. Cotton Mather, Onesimus's enslaver, spread this knowledge around Boston and other places to fight smallpox, taking the credit for himself.

  • Publication Date of "Systema Naturae" by Carl Linnaeus

  • Edward Long's racist rhetoric

  • 3/5th compromise

  • Period: to

    Second Middle Passage

  • Publication Date of "On the Natural Variety of Mankind" by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

    Established the first systematic racial classification based on comparative anatomical "data."

  • Abolition of the International Slave Trade in the U.S.

  • Hughes v. Banks case

    Mr. Banks, the new enslaver of a woman, shared the previous enslaver Mr. Hughes with willfully selling him a sick slave

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Cadaver Slave Trade - Ghost value of Black life/bodies

  • Birth of Robert Reed Church, first Black millionaire in U.S.

  • J. Marion Sims' fistula operations on Black women

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Law

  • Period: to

    Bleeding Kansas

  • Dred Scott decision

  • John Brown's Raid

  • Height of "King Cotton"

    75% of the world's cotton from enslaved labor
  • Period: to

    U.S. Civil War

  • 13th Amendment

  • Founding of the Freedmen's Bureau

    Provided assistance through food, medical care, finances, and education
  • Period: to

    Reconstruction

  • Memphis Massacre

  • Rise of eugenics movement

  • National Association of Colored Women founded

  • Period: to

    Progressive Era

  • Period: to

    Bellevue School for Midwives in NYC

  • Red Summer

  • Tulsa Massacre

  • Period: to

    Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

  • Period: to

    Tuskegee School of Midwifery

  • Walter White's father's death

    Walter White's father who presented as white was run over. He was rushed to the white hospital. However, when the hospital workers realized he had a brown-skinned son-in-law, they moved him to the Black ward where he died of his injuries

  • Henrietta Lacks' cells are collected and stored without her consent

  • Period: to

    Civil Rights Movement

  • Birmingham Church Bombing

  • Watts Riot

  • The Moynihan Report

  • MLK Assassination

  • Civil Rights Act signed by LBJ

    Passed Medicare and initiated the desegregation of U.S. hospitals

  • The Kerner Report

  • Sanitation Workers' Strike in Memphis

  • Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia

    During this pandemic, many white leaders professed that Black people were immune to Yellow Fever and thus Black nurses were forced to attend to the highly contagious patients.
  • Period: to

    Mass Incarceration grows by 700%

  • The National Research Act

  • Belmont Commission and Report

    Major changes for human research subject studies, despite centuries of human subject research on people of color in the U.S.

  • AIDS epidemic

  • Study introduces the idea of a multiplication factor for eGFR

  • National Kidney Foundation approves new race-free calculation of eGFR