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This was when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 African slaves into the British Colony of Jamestown, Virginia. They were probably captured from a Portuguese ship. After this event happen a new path of trade started and then Slavery started. -
This is the period with all of the events where many Africans were captured and used for slavery. And many arguments and deals happen. There was a civil war as well.
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The Middle Passage was a path in which millions of African men, women, and children were transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Many died on this path since it took a long time to arrive at their destination, roughly 80 days was the amount of time it took to arrive at the New World. Their ships were really large and could hold from 150 - 600 people in each boat. -
The Fugitive Slave Clause of the United States Constitution, also known as the Slave Clause, is Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3, which requires a "person held to service or labor" who flees to another state to be returned to his or her master in the state from which that person escaped. The passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery except as a punishment for criminal acts, made the clause useless. -
To try and preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states. They passed the Missouri Compromise in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. After, with the exception of Missouri, this paper disallowed slavery in the Louisiana Territory north. -
The underground railroads weren't actual railroads, they were just a chain of safe houses and other areas for recently escaped slaves to get transported to Canada so they would be free and out of their owner's reach. Many well-known people helped the railroads work better and fought hard for slaves to be freed once and for all. The people involved in this were: John Fairfield, Levi Coffin, and Harriet Tubman. -
This Rebellion was led by Nat Turner with enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton, Virginia. The rebels killed 50 to 65 people in the rebellion, at least 51 of who were white. The rebellion was over a few days after. -
This compromise was made of 5 bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in the new territories added to the United States. It admitted California as a free state and left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves. The Compromise of 1850 was the master plan of Whig senator Henry Clay and Democratic senator Stephan Douglas. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin book was an abolitionist novel, it achieved wide popularity, particularly among white readers in the North, by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery. Uncle Tom’s Cabin tells the story of Uncle Tom, depicted as a dignified slave. While being transported by boat to auction in New Orleans, Tom saves the life of Little Eva, whose grateful father then purchases Tom. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as pro-slavery and anti-slavery activists flooded into the territories to change the vote. -
The Dred Scott case, also known as Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott. The case persisted through several courts and ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decision incensed abolitionists, gave momentum to the anti-slavery movement, and served as a stepping stone to the Civil War. This made another civil war occur like there were many others as well. -
John Brown led a small army of 18 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to investigate a big slave state to the south. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area, and move south along the Appalachian Mountains, attracting slaves to his cause. -
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all people held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." This event made a lot of slaves around the states free. While the Emancipation Proclamation was very limited to the states which were loyal border states to the United States so slavery was untouched there.
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