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Timeline of American Slavery
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TIMELINE OF AMERICAN SLAVERY
late August 1619
1619
In august of 1619,20 enslaved africans were seized from a portugese slave ship and carried to Jamestown. Virgina and then were trased for provisions and were claddified as indentured servants. The ship was the first toa rrive in the British North American colonies on the "White Lion".
1641-1643
1641-1643
In 1641, Massachusetts were the first colony to legalize slavery and later on in 1643, the New England Confederation of Plymouth, Massachuettes, Connecticut, and New Haven adopted a new fugitive slave law that requires any runaway servant to deliver to their master abd bring a certificate to prove their own them. It also provided the return of the fugitives who escaped within territories
1661
1661
The first anti-miscengenation statute which prohibited the marriage between races, was written in Maryland in 1661, shortly after enslaved people were brought to the colonies. By the 1960s, 21 states mostly in the south, still had those laws in place with Aalabama being the last to repeat the ban in 2000.
1676 and 1680
In 1676, the bacons rebellion in Virginia has whites and blacks fighting together with the government responding by hastening the transistion to black slavery. And then in 1680, groups of people sucessfully escaped slavery and the state of Virginia forbids blacks and slaves from bearing arms, forbids blacks from congreating in large numbers, and mandates harsh punishment for slaves who assualy christians or attempt escape.
1676 & 1680
1688-1705
1688& 1705
On Feburary 18,1688, in Pennsylvania quakers adopted the first formal anti-slavery resolution since they felt as if christians are not supposed to treat others the way they would not like to be treated. Later on in 1693, Spain gave the freedom to all fugitive slaves who Catholism in Spanish Florida. In 1705 Virgina passed a law that all laborores who were not christians shall be slaves, even if they converted to Christanity later on.
1770-1773
Crispus attucks was shot and killed in the boston massacre, where led to a century debate determining if he was a patrotic hero or a trouble making villian, and is still an ongoing debate. Ans in 1773, Phillis Wheatly, who was a freed slave, published poems about slavery and the unjustices faced upon these people.
1770-1733
1739
The stono rebellion was the first major slave rebllion which reusulted in the loss of 60 lives and spread fear amoungst the colonies. In response to this, the South Carolina slave code of 1740 gave rights to the white over african american bodies and did not have a good effect on the slave rebellion.
1739
1730
In 1730, there was a mass escaoe organized with 300 slaves in Virginia and 400 bambara slaves in louisiana were planning to kil french colonists and seize their colony but this plan was discovered and the leaders of the escape were killed
1730
1775
on april 14, 1775, the pennslyvania society for the abolition of slavery was founded, which was the first american anti-slavery society. And on december 30,1775, George Washington accepted free blacks to fight in the american army, considering more than 5000 blacks were fighting against the British.
1776
1776
The Declearation of Indpendence which embraced in its first lines 'that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights", did not extend that right to slaves, Africans or African Americans, with the final version acrapping a reference to the denucation of slavery.
1808-1820
On January 1, 1808, laws went into effect in Britain and the US banning the african slavetrade and on march 3, 1820, the missouri compromise was approved, admitting missouri as a slave state, and maine as a free state and prohibiting slavery in western territories that were North of missouris southern border.
1808 &1820
1831
1831
On August 22, 1831, Nat Turner led the most brutal slave revolt in Us history. Killing 60 whites. He went into hiding for about 2 months after the revolt ended and was stopped and many got many cruel towards these slaves since they thought they were treating them better then most colonies but they still revolted.
1850
1850& 1863
The Compromise of 1850 allows states entering the Union after the Mexican-American war to determine wether they enter the Union as free or slave states. In response to tensions, the Fugitive Slave Law is established. Nicknamed the "bloodhound law". The Fugitive Slave Law required that all captured slaves be returned to their owners and that the law enforced and free citizens---even in free states--- were required to help.
1852
Uncle Toms Cabin was published, which by the end of the year 300,00 were soild within the US. This story was spread throughout the US and united alves together and reminded them that they were not alone and there was still hope.
1852
1857
On march 6,1857, the US supreme court decleared that balcks were not US citizens and did not allow congress to prohibit slavery in federal territory.
1857
1863
On Janurary 1,1863, Lincoln issued the Emanicaption Proclamation that decleared a union victory would mean the end of slavery in the US. And on JUly 18,1863, the 54th Massachuetts volunteer Infantry led an attack on Fort Wagner in SC. The 54th was the first all black regiment that was recrutied for the union army in the north and as many as 185,000 black soliders fought for the union.
1863
1865
1865
on December 6, 1865 the 13th ammendement was ratified, outlawing slavery. According to Abraham Lincoln, the civil war was fought ot keep the americans whole, and not for thr aboition of slavery- atleast intially southern states were really fighting to keep people enslaved. Lincoln took on the fight for the freedom of slaves, some historians have suggested, because he was worried the Britsh would support the south in its self-decleared self-determination and reconize the south as a separte entity if he had made the war about ending slavery, it would have looked bad for the souths fight and the Britsh supporting its cause.
Jim Crow Era
As African American were shut out of jobs and oppertunites during JIm Crow, and as more jobs became avaliable in the north and midwest, more than 2 million southern african americans migrated after the first world war. Still even hundreds of miles away from southern segreation, these migrating americans were met by "sundown towns", where black people were not welocme afte rthe sunset and by restrictions on where they could live in cities. Oregon's constitution, for example, only removed its exclusionary clause, prhibiting black people to enter the state, in 1926. The fight still continued, fighting for the kids to be allowed to go to school together and have equal voting rights.