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Europeans Start Transporting Slaves
PBSFTWEuropean travelers started transporting african men,women and children to use as slaves, because of their skin color and usefulness. -
Cotton Gin Invented
LinkCotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney and was patented in 1794.
Whitney's cotton gin model was capable of cleaning 50 pounds (23 kg) of lint per day. The model consisted of a wooden cylinder surrounded by rows of slender spikes, which pulled the lint through the bars of a comb-like grid.[10] The grids were closely spaced, preventing the seeds from passing through. Loose cotton was brushed off, preventing the mechanism from jamming. -
Slavery Ends In Great Britain
LinkThe British slave trade was one of the most efficient "machines' of the 18th century. It is estimated that more than 3 million African people were transported across the Atlantic to work in the colonies. Profits for Britain were massive so it may come as a surprise to discover that, in the 19th century, British people actually led the fight to end slavery. -
Amistad Mutiny
LinkAmistad mutiny, (July 2, 1839), slave rebellion that took place on the slave ship Amistad near the coast of Cuba and had important political and legal repercussions in the American abolition movement. The mutineers were captured and tried in the United States, and a surprising victory for the country’s antislavery forces resulted in 1841 when the U.S. Supreme Court freed the rebels. A committee formed to defend the slaves later developed into the American Missionary Association (incorporated 184 -
Compromise of 1850
LinkThe Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which diffused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas, avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years. -
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American Civil War
LinkThe war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, and, after four years of bloody combat (mostly in the South), the Confederacy was defeated, and slavery was abolished. -
13th Amendment Passed In United States Government
LinkIt was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18. The effects of this amendment were abolishing slavery and laws against vagrancy. -
Slavery Abolished In United States
LinkJanuary 1, 1863 - Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was issued. It promised freedom to all slaves once the North was victorious in the Civil War. April 9, 1865 - Lee surrendered his army, thus officially ending the war and freeing slaves wheverever news reached. June 19, 1865 - Word reached Texas that the Confederacy had collapsed and all slaves in the state were freed. December 6, 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment -
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Jim Crow Laws
LinkThe Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. -
Brown v. Board of Education
LinkBrown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial s -
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African-American Civil Rights Movement
The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities. -
The Muderer Of Emmet Till
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting his relatives in the Mississippi Delta region when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the married proprietor of a small grocery store. Several nights later, -
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Freedon Riders Movement
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to protest against slavery/ -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
LinkMartin Luther King Jr is assassinated at the Lorriane Hotel in Memphis by James Earl Ray in the cheek, from which the bullet continued to move through his jaw and into his shoulder/spine. He was assassinated because of his strong anti racism beliefs -
Last Country To Abolish Slavery
Link2007: Mauritania makes it illegal to own slaves.
2012: A CNN report describes Mauritania as "Slavery's Last Stronghold" This was the last country to abolish slaves.
