Slavery timeline

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  • The Middle Passage
    1518

    The Middle Passage

    The middle passage was the stage of the Triangular Trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported as part of the Atlantic slave trade
  • First fugitive slave act

    First fugitive slave act

    The act made it so that it's a crime to harbor an escaped slave or to interfere with the arrest of a slave.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri compromise was the United States federal legislation that stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit slaverys expansion.
  • The Underground Railroad

    The Underground Railroad

    The railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the US during the early to mid-19th century.
  • Nat Turner

    Nat Turner

    Nat Turner killed 60 whites/slave owners and their families and brought up to 75 slaves to help him with the operation.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    It banned public sales of slaves in the Columbian District, opened up all the land seized by Mexico to settlement by slave owners and made a new fugitive slave law.
  • Uncle Tom´s Cabin

    Uncle Tom´s Cabin

    It was a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was published to show the fears of slavery.
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The act mandated that a popular vote of the settlers would determine if territories became free or slave states.
  • The Dred Scott Case

    The Dred Scott Case

    The Dred Scott case was a decision of the US Supreme Court in which the court held that the US constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people.
  • John Brown´s Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown´s Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown´s raid was an effort to initiate a slave revolt in Southern States by taking over the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    The proclamation is about Abraham Lincoln who issued the proclamation in which he stated,¨All persons held as slaves, are and henceforward shall be free¨.

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