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The History of Slavery and Social Injustice
A detailed timeline that describes and shows the world of slavery and social injustice. -
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Europeans bring slaves to the US
The Dutch West India Company introduced slavery when they brought eleven enslaved African-Americans to New Amsterdam (currenntly know as New York City) where they worked as farmers, fur traders and builders. Although these people were enslaved, they still had certain rights, and all had families that came with them, and if they desired so, they children could be baptized. -
The Invention of the Cotton Gin
Who really invented the cotton gin is up to debate, but most believe that Eli Whitney is credited for the invention because he patented it. Some say Catherine Littlefield Greene invented it, some say slaves came up with the idea but there is too much evidence that Eli Whitney was the one who really invented it. -
Slavery is abolished in Great Britain
1807 was actually the year when slavery was made illegal in Great Britain, but it was only in August of 1834, that the Parliament passed a law that all children under the age of six in the West Indies would be freed from work. -
Amistad Trial
On November 17, 1840, John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, visited thirty-six African men being held outside of New Haven, Connecticut. The Africans who had mutinied on a Spanish slave ship were being tried for piracy and murder on the high seas. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The federal acts of 1793 and 1850 providing for the return between states of escaped black slaves. Similar laws existing in both North and South in colonial days applied also to white indentured servants and to Native American slaves. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was when the senator of Massachusetts and the senator of South Carolina agreed that blacks should start rebuilding their lives in the northern part of the United States. Their plan didn't go very well and many blacks fled to Canada. -
Slavery ends in Nigeria
In 1861, in the main port of Lagos, the British started taking control of the coast, and by the end of the year owned a large part of land, Seeing as the British had passed a law in 1834 that there would be no more slaves on their land, they quickly rid of the many slaves that were working in the port and on the coast! -
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The American Civil War
In the Spring of 1861, unbearable tension between the North and the South, which involved debates about people's rights in the country, erupted into a full force civil war (1861-65). The War triggered many dilemas between states and sometimes people fought brother against brother. By the end of the war, 620,000 -
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of the civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
The 13th Amendment added
The 13th Amendment was added to the Constitution and declared 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." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865. -
Slavery is abolished in the United States
The Civil War ends and Abraham Lincoln is assasinated. The thirteenth amendment abolishes slavery througout the United States. On the 19th of June, the 250,000 slaves throughout Texas receive the information that the civil war ended, and that they are free. -
Last Country to abolish Slavery
That country was Mauritania, a medium-sized nation located in western Africa. This does not mean that slavery does not still exist in modern times unfortunately, but for the past 30 years it has been considered a criminal offense in every country worldwide. -
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Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow laws were laws that were passed in different states, that stated that whites couldn't be with blacks, and that blacks couldn't use the same waiting room as whites, and that they had to sit in the back of a bus, and that whites and blacks couldn't use the same train. -
Brown vs. Board of education—U.S. supreme court case
Linda Brown, an eight-year-old African-American girl, had been denied permission to attend an elementary school only five blocks from her home in Topeka, Kansas. School officials refused to register her at the nearby school, assigning her instead to a school for non-white students some 21 blocks from her home. -
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The Freedom Riders Movement
The Freedom Riders were a group of white and black americans that rebelled against the laws of Jim Crow. The blacks would sit in white bus waiting rooms and would sit at the front of the bus. -
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Civil Right Movement for African-American in the US
The Civil Rights movement was a freedom struggle by African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s to gain equality. The goals of the movement were freedom from discrimination, equal opportunity in employment, education and housing, the right to vote and equal access to public facilities. -
The Murder if Emmett Till
In August 1955, Emmett Till went to visit his relatives in Missippi. During his stay, Till visited a meat Market, by the name of Bryant's Meat store, a shop owned by a white couple, Roy and Carolyn Bryant, Till is said to have whistled at Mrs. Bryant. Several days later, on Aug 28th, Till was kidnapped, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River, his mutilated body was barely identifiable. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination
On the 4th of April 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. After his death, many blacks were very unhappy, and took to the streets where they rioted against white power.
