Slavery timeline

  • Slavery arrival

    Slavery arrival
    The start of slavery was in 1619 in Jamestown Virginia.
  • Slave Trade abolished

    Slave Trade abolished
    The Parliament of the United Kingdom
  • Missouri Comprimise

    Missouri Comprimise
    balance of power in Congress between slave and free states,
  • Wilmot proviso

    Wilmot proviso
    A bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American War.
  • Fugitive Slave Acts (2 of them)

    Fugitive Slave Acts (2 of them)
    Many slaves were trying to move into free states.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states having to do with the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's  Cabin
    Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book wrightin by a white women who told how cruel slave owners were.
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act
    allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Bleeding Kansas describes very big violence and detraction. Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery
  • b.Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case

    b.Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case
    The Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not American citizens (free or slave).They also could not sue if they were in court.
  • John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
    John Brown was initiate, an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.