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Underground Railroad/Salvery

  • Jan 1, 1501

    The first slaves location

    African slaves were brought into Santo Domingo
  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Underground Railroad

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Slavery Begins

    Slaves were brought into Jamestown they were the first Afrcans imported in Britains North Americans colonies.
  • The law makers of virgina

    allow owners to kill and destroy runaways
  • Slaves revolt

    In New York nine whites are killed and 21 slaves are exucuted
  • Anthony Benzet

    becomes one of the first to fund the abolitionist's society
  • Decleration of Independence

    Colonies are divided free and independent states
  • Vermont

    becomes the first state to abolish slavery
  • US cenus

    Reveals almost 700,000 slaves in a nation of 3.9 million people
  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    states outlaws any efforts to impede the capture of runaway slaves
  • End of slave trade

    U.S. banned the slave trade but smuggling still continued
  • Fredrick Douglass

    escapes from slavery in Baltimore, and later publishes a book
  • Nat Turner

    a literate slave, instigates a slave revolt in Virgina. Fifty-seven whites are killed but 200 slaves are killed also
  • England

    abolishes slavery including its colonies
  • Harritet Tubman

    Escapes for to Pennsylvania, but later returns back to to the south 19 times to rescue 300 people
  • Comprimise of 1850

    State of California becomes a free slave state
  • Dred Scott Descion

    States that blacks can never be citizens, and slavey couldn't be outlawed
  • Civil War

    batlle of free states and independent states and eventually claims 640,000 lives
  • The Emanciptation Proclamation

    it frees slaves in the rebel territory only., leaving slavery intact in border states
  • 13th Amendment

    Slavery is abolished in the United Staes
  • The 13 amedment

    States that slavey reached the end.