Unit 8 Timeline

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  • The American Colonization Society

    A society of abolitionists who's objective was to transport blacks back to Africa

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    National Turner, a black preacher, started a rebellion that killed around 60 Virginians

  • The Liberator

    An anti slavery newspaper published by William Loyn Garrison

  • Gag Resolution

    This required anti slavery appeals to be basically ignored all anti slavery petitions

  • Amistad

    Enslaved Africans rebelled in the Spanish ship Amistad by attempting to sail back to Africa. They got arrested, but president John Quincy Adams made sure to give then their freedom back.

  • Frederick Douglass

    Freeman Frederick Douglass published an autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"