Slavery & States Rights

By AylaJoan

  • Missouri Compromise

  • New York Ablishes Slavery

  • The British Empire Abolishes Slavery

  • The results of the 1840 census show a total population of 16,987,946 including 2,482,546 slaves or 15% of the population. Slaves are virtually non-existent in northern states and as high as 55% in South Carolina and 52% in Mississippi.

  • Former slave, Frederick Douglass, publishes his autobiography - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

  • Iowa becomes the twenty ninth state and enters the Union as a free state in 1846.

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • surrender at Appomattox Courthouse