The Antebellum Period

slave code virginia

Mar 13, 1650

everyone but negroes are to be provided with arms and ammunitionws

3/5 compromise

Mar 13, 1783

3/5

1st constitutional compromise

Mar 13, 1808

Congress had to wait 20 years to pass a law making it illegal to import slaves into the U.S

Missouri Compromise

Mar 13, 1820

a compromise signed to divide slave and free states

Nat Turner leads rebellion

Aug 22, 1831

Nat Turner leads a rebellion into town

Alabama slave code section 31

Mar 14, 1838

slave codes

Fugitive Slave Act

Sep 18, 1850

Any slaves captured in the north must be brought back to their owners

slave code booklet D.C

Mar 13, 1862

the slave code booklet signed for Washington D.C signes abolishing slavery in D.C