Slavery Timeline

By baileychatmanwilson

  • First slaves brought to America

    This is an estimated date on which they were brought

  • Slavery illegal in North

    Estimated date

  • Cotton gin invented

    This month and day are guessed, but the year is correct.

  • Fugitive slave law is enacted

    Month and day are estimated and year is correct. This law is said to give reward for any slave that is returned after they escape.

  • No more slavery above Mason and Dixon Line

    This is an estimated date on which they abolished slavery in the north

  • Importation of slaves is banned

    Estimated date.

  • Fredrick Douglass was born

  • Harriet Tubman's first escape

  • Fredrick Douglass's autobiorgraphy is published

    "My Bondange and My Freedom" Incorrect month and day

  • Dred Scott decision makes slavery legal in all territiories

    Estimated month and day, but correct year

  • Abraham Lincoln elected president

    month and day is estimated

  • Civil War ends

  • Ku Klux Klan is formed

  • Slavery completely abolished in all of the U.S.

    believed date on which this happened

  • Martin Luther King Jr. is assasinated