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FIRST SLAVES
Dutch traders bring 20 slaves captured from a seized ship into Jamestown VA. -
DUCTH SEIZE ELIMINA CASTLE
Dutch successfully captured Elmina Castle from the Portuguese. St. George's Castle was built in 1482 by the Portuguese and being the largest European structure in Sub-Saharan Africa in its day -
AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE BEGINS
A slave trade spanning across New England, Africa, Caribbean Islands to New England. Slaves were kept underneath the ship in horrible conditions. Males in spaces measuring 6'x1'x4", Females and children 10'x1'x4". -
NEW YORK SLAVE REVOLT
Black slaves met in an orchard on Maiden Lane in Manhattan. They had hatchets, guns and knives, and, according to historian Edward Ellis, they believed that "by launching a dramatic revolt, they [would] incite other slaves and massacre all the white people in town." Pressmen, G (2010), APR 6) The Slave Revolt of 1712 in New York -- An Anniversary. Retrieved from https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/The-Slave-Revolt-of-1712-in-New-York---An-Anniversary-90028817.html -
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE BANS SLAVERY
Considered one of the most important legislative acts of the Confederation Congress, the Northwest Ordinance also protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in the new territories. -
DRED SCOTT DECISION
Dred Scott Decision The United States Supreme Court decides, seven to two, that blacks can never be citizens and that Congress has no authority to outlaw slavery in any territory. -
CIVIL WAR
“The War Between the States,” was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery. -
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. He felt that as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
END OF SLAVERY
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. Section 2. -
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
Lynden B Johnson signed the act which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
