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European explorers brought slaves to the Americas from 1502 to 1865. More than 12,000,000 African slaves were brought to the Americas.
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Slavery in Russia was abolished in 1723 when Peter the Great turned all the household slaves into serfs. All the agricultural slaves became serfs in 1679.
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In 1793 the cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney, but finally patened in 1794. It revolutionised the cotton industry in the United States, but caused the need for more slaves. It was a contribute to the American Civil War.
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The Parliament of the United Kingdom abolished slavery throighout the British Empire. This did not include some of the colonies and the Carribean island territories. The Act was repealed in 1998, but an anti-slavery legislation remains.
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The Amistad Trial was held by the Supreme Court to figure out what to do with a group of slaves that had rebelled against their captors but they had been taken illegally. After the Amistad case many laws were made, that were influenced by this event.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills that helped advoid secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years. It caused a four year confrontational between South slave-states and North free-states.
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The Fugitive Slave Act is a law that was passed in 1850 declaring that if a runaway slave was caught, he or she had to go back to their master. It was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise.
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On August 28th 1855, a young black boy named Emmett Till was kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot and thrown into the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. He was accused of whistling at a white woman.
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The American Civil War, was fought from 1861 to 1865 between the North and the South. The war started because of slavery issues. After four years of fighting slavery was abolished, and rights for the freedom of slaves began.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was signed on the 1st of January, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln. It stated that all of the slaves in Confederate territory have to be freed.
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These were a series of laws that were passed which created "separate but equal" for colored people. This caused separate schools, buses, resturants, benchs, neighborhoods, etc. For colored people usually had the inferior to those things of the white people.
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The 13th amendment was "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." It was passed on the 31st of January, but finally ratified on the 6th of December.
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On the 6th of December slavery was finally abolished throughout the United States. But in 1848 slavery had already been abolished in the North.
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In 1951, suit was filed against the Board of Education of the City of Topeka, Kansas. The man who started it was Oliver Brown who was trying to get his third grade daughter Linda Brown Thompson into a white school. It resulted in Kansas changing their laws for segregating black and white kids.
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These Civil Right movements were public shows of need for change. The colored people were protesting against racial discrimination and and wanted the same rights as white people had.
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The Freedom Riders were a group of white and black people that campaigned against racial discrimination. They sat together at segregated resturants, on buses and tried to hit big chains and popular hotels.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis, Tennessee standing on his motel balconey when he was hit by a sniper bullet. After his death there were many waves of riots.
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Even though slavery was abolished in 1981, but it was only criminalised in 2007. Now if you support slavery you can be imprisioned for 2 years and if you have anything to do with slaves, it results with 10 years of slavery.
