Slavery Timeline

  • Africans Arrive

    African people are brought to America inteded to be used as slaves
  • Slave trade abolished

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle toms cabin published

  • Bleeding Kansas

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme Court Case

  • John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry

    October 16-18, 1859
  • Fugitive Slave Acts