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William Lloyd Garrison launches the Liberator
An abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp, Garrison's uncompromising position on the moral outrage that was slavery made him loved and hated by many Americans. -
Nat Turner Leads A Slave Revolt in Virginia
Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States. -
American Anti Slavery Society Founded in Boston
The abolitionist society's antislavery activities frequently met with violent public opposition, with mobs invading meetings, attacking speakers, and burning presses. -
Sarah Grimke's Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women
In this famous series of tracts, Grimke defended the right of women to speak in public in defense of a moral cause.***Not exact date -
Frederick Douglass published the North Star
The North Star developed into one of the most influential African American antislavery publications of the pre-Civil War era. -
Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, NY
It was the first women's rights convention. It was seen as a continuing effort by women to gain for themselves a greater proportion of social, civil and moral rights. -
Harriet Tubman Escapes From Slavery
After her escape she became a leading abolitionist and led hundreds to freedom. -
Fugitive Slave Act passed
It required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate in this law. -
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech
Her speech was powerful rebuke to many antifeminist arguments of the day. It became, and continues to serve, as a classic expression of womens rights. Truth became, and still is today, a symbol of strong women. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
The book is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". -
Civil War known as "Bleeding Kansas"
This was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in Kansas between 1854 and 1861. **not exact date -
Republican Party Founded
In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act passed
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders, served to repeal the missouri compromise. -
Charles Sumner Beating
n one of the most dramatic and deeply ominous moments in the Senate's entire history, a member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate chamber and savagely beat a senator into unconsciousness. -
Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision
Dred Scott, an enslaved African American man who had been taken by his owners to free states and territories, attempted to sue for his freedom -
Lecompton Constitution rejected by Congresss
Kansas voters, having the opportunity to reject the constitution altogether in the referendum, overwhelmingly rejected the Lecompton proposal by a vote of 10,226 to 138. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 with Lincoln as the new president, served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
Henry Highlans Garnet's "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America"
The National Negro Convention of 1843 was held in Buffalo, New York drawing some seventy delegates and a dozen states. Henry Highland Garnet, a newspaper editor and pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Troy, New York, however captured most of the attention of the delegates with his “An Address to the Slaves of the United States” in which he called for their open rebellion. **exact date unknown
