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The First Slaves in America
A dutch trading ships bound to the new colony of Jamestwon dropped its first shipmet of newly captured black slaves in Virginia. -
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Slavery flourishment in America
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Slavery is illigal in the Nothwest Territory
Slavery is made illegal in the Northwest Territory, the newly acquired land that America purchased from the French. The U.S Constitution states that Congress may not ban the slave trade until 1808. -
Cotten Gin
Eli Whitney's invents the cotten gin, a easy man powered machine to seperated cotten seed from the cotten. this depand more labor for teh southern plantation owners to grow and produce more cotten more labor means more slaves -
Fugative Slave law
A federal fugitive slave law is passed, providing for the return of slaves who had escaped and crossed state lines into the northern states where slavery was abolished. -
Congress Bans slave trade from Africa
Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa to the Americas'. but slave trade still flourishes. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri. This altered the power in congress between the North and South. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner, an enslaved African American preacher, leads the most significant slave uprising in American history. He and his band of followers launch a short, bloody, rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. the uprising killed 65 white southerners. the rebellion was soon put out and Nat Turner was hung for his crimes. this lead to more strict slave laws. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. It becomes one of the most influential works to stir anti-slavery sentiments. the book soon becomes illegal in the South to try ans stamp out the slaves hope -
Dred Scott
The Dred Scott case holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, Scott loses his case on the reason he is not a citizen nor a person he is considered property. -
Civil War
The Confederacy is founded when the deep South secedes, and the Civil War begins. the Nation is split in two free Northern states vs. enslaved Southern states -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate state "are, and henceforward shall be free." Since most of the population in the south was slaves this was a key move into the winning of the war and slaves gaining their freedom. -
Freedom!
The Civil War ends. The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery throughout the United States. On June 19 slavery in the United States effectively ended. The slaves of the South were finally freed from there shackles of slavery, but this was just the beginning of a long road of hate and oppression.
