Slavery Timeline

  • Slaves arrive in America

  • Slave trade abolished

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Acts (2 of them)

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Bleeding Kansas START

  • Dredd Scott V. Sanford Supreme Court Case

  • John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry

  • Bleeding Kansas END