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Timeline of Slavery in America
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Timeline of slavery in America
1831
The Debate intensifies
1739
Seeds of revolution
1676
Emergent Conflict
1781
Gradual Emancipation
1874
Birth of "Jim Crow" Laws
Nat Turner, an enslaved Baptist preacher believing himself divinely inspired, leads a violent rebellion in Southampton, Virginia. At least 57 whites are killed.
Mum Bett and another Massachusetts slave successfully sue their master for freedom.
Slaves in Stono, South Carolina, rebel, sacking and burning an armory and killing whites. The colonial militia puts an end to the rebellion before slaves are able to reach freedom in Florida.
In Virginia, black slaves and black and white indentured servants band together to participate in Bacon's Rebellion.
1641
The Laws Step In
1860
A New Nation
Democrats win control of both houses of Congress for the first time since the Antebellum period.
Abraham lincoln Is elected as president
Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery.
1865
A New Era
The thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishes slavery throughout the country.
1600
1700
1900
1800
1619
The Beginning
1871
Affecting Civil Rights
- At Jamestown, Virginia, approximately 20 captive Africans are sold into slavery in the British North American colonies.
1654
1863
Freedom Triumphs
1848
Forms An Opposition
1705
Racial Oppression is Law
Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in areas of rebellion.
1787
End of Importation
1773
Freedom In the Air
The Ku Klux Klan Act is passed, giving the federal government the right to mete out punishment where civil rights laws are not upheld and to use military force against anti-civil rights conspiracies.
A Virginia court grants blacks the right to hold slaves.
The Virginia Slave Code codifies slave status, declaring all non-Christian servants entering the colony to be slaves. It defines all slaves as real estate, acquits masters who kill slaves during punishment, forbids slaves and free colored peoples from physically assaulting white persons, and denies slaves the right to bear arms or move abroad without written permission.
Anti-slavery groups organize the Free Soil Party, a group opposed to the westward expansion of slavery from which the Republican Party will later be born
The Northwest Ordinance forbids slavery, except as criminal punishment, in the Northwest Territory (later Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin). Residents of the territory are required to return fugitive slaves.
The first separate black church in America is founded in South Carolina.