Slavery in America

By duaaa
  • Gabriel Prosser

    Gabriel Prosser
    he was a hard working young man better than then some slaves in that time. He lead slave revolt he got people together for one reason.
  • U.S. Constitution ratified

    U.S. Constitution ratified
    they wrote the constitution some debated it bur later on it got ratified it didn’t do anything to help their equality it made slavery legal across the states.
  • Freedom’s Journal is published in New York

     Freedom’s Journal is published in New York
    The journal was edited by John Russwurm and co-editor Samuel Cornish.it was national and international well what this newspaper about giving information about whats happening such as an events and about blacks society .“We did and do declare the whip to be essential to the West Indian discipline. The COMFORT, WELFARE, and HAPPINESS of our labouring classes cannot subsist without it.” so their was a slave law passed after that but not about equality but kind of giving justice if theyy do s
  • Slaves escape using Underground Railroad

    Slaves escape using Underground Railroad
    its a way of helping other to get freedom by making them or helping them esca[e to other countries or north.it didn’t still help for equality but but it gave them some courage to start thinking and trying to escape and become free.
  • Frederick Douglass

     Frederick Douglass
    he’s a slave that was not allowed to learn read and write,he learned how to read and write he involved about the slaves right to make african american better.
  • Dred Scott Case Decision

    Dred Scott Case Decision
    he tried to sue the state but he didn’t have right to because he was black . it inspired Abraham Lincoln to be nominated because he was anti slavery .
  • Abraham Lincoln elected president

    Abraham Lincoln elected president
    “s elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates:”this president was anti slavery he believed it was wrong so he was working on something to solve their problem which lead some people to be angry southern
  • Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

     Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
    Abraham Lincoln passed this to say that all African American that held as slaves shall be free.it helped African American to be Free
  • President Abraham Lincoln

    President Abraham Lincoln
    President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.He made slaves free by passing the emancipation proclamation .
  • Plessy v. Ferguson case

    Plessy v. Ferguson case
    this case helped quality for African Americans but they shall be separated .
  • George Washington Carver

    George Washington Carver
    he helped to revolutionize farming in America. by researching and his knowledge like they can work to together even a black guy now can do this kind of job to improve America situation
  • The “Scottsboro Boys” case

    The “Scottsboro Boys” case
    9 boys accused of something they never did “raping two women”it didn’t contribute the equality they were more judged on how they looked like their skin color the fact they didn’t do nothing and still held in jail
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    this law order by the court their no segregation of getting education if you were black no one have the right to say no so now they can get same education as white without being discriminated
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    she got on a bus and the driver insist to give her seat to a white person so she refuses from that point on all backs boycott the buses .till they made it okay to sit in front and not have to give your seat. now by what Rosa Park did it made it offical all that are are equal no one is better than anyone .
  • Civil Rights Act signed

     Civil Rights Act signed
    to prohibit discrimination in any places or in public against black or getting in the way of getting a job because of your color .now it against the law to discriminate now is equal to get same job and same privileges as white people .