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Slavery in America

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  • Slaves Arrive in America

    Slaves Arrive in America
    The first slaves, 16 of them, brought to Jamestown. A Dutch trader had taken them from a Spanish slave ship.

  • Slave Trade Abolished

    Slave Trade Abolished
    The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act made it illegal for anyone to engage in the slave trade throughout the British Colonies.

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Congress passed a bill where Missouri was to be a slave state and Maine would be a free state. Anything north of the 36th parallel was to be free as well.

  • Runaway Slave

    Runaway Slave
    Harriet Jacobs escaped in 1834 with a $300 bounty on her head. She made it all the way to Philadelphia and then later moved to New York City.

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    Congressman Wilmot Proviso proposed that the territory gained from Mexico in the Mexican War would ban slavery.

  • Runaway Slave

    Runaway Slave
    Henry Brown escaped slavery by being shipped in a wooden crate for 27 hours. The was enslaved in Virginia and escaped to Philadelphia.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Trying to avert a problem with the north and south, Senator Henry Clay introduced the idea to amend the Fugitive Slave Acts and end the Slave Trade is Washington D.C.

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
    Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was published on March 20 1825 selling 300,000 copies in the first month.

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act
    The Kansas Nebraska Act was passed by U.S. Congress to allow citizens that lived is Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted slaves. It also was used to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court Case

    Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court Case
    Dred Scott was a slave their tried to sue for his freedom, but the Supreme Court ruled that a negro is not a citizen of the United States, and therefore could not sue for his freedom.

  • John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
    John Brown was an armed abolitionist who started a slave revolt by capturing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent meetings between people in Kansas who thought there should be slaves and people who thought there shouldn’t be slaves.