Download Timeline of Slavery in America

Timeline of Slavery in America
The issue of slavery evolved into a complex problem on American soil from 1800
up until the beginning of 1865
Year
Event
1800
Gabriel Prosser attempts a slave rebellion in Virginia
1807
British Parliament puts a stop to the shipping and trading
African slaves.
1808
Congress of the United States made it illegal to bring more
slaves into the country. The smuggling of African slaves
continues well into the mid 1800's. Slave trading within the
states continues until Emancipation in 1863
1812
The British, as a payback to the American colonists, offered
the Africans a chance to own land and be free - if they fought
on their side during the War of 1812
1819
The Canadian government refused to cooperate with the
American government by not allowing them free access to
pursue escaped slaves living in Canada.
1820
The Missouri Compromise was adopted, allowing Missouri to
enter the Union as a slaveholding state and Maine as a
freebearing state. The Missouri Compromise kept the number
of free states and slave states balanced
1822
Denmark Vesey arrested for planning a slave rebellion in
South Carolina
1831
Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion in Southampton, Virginia
1833
The American Anti-Slavery Society was established in
Philadelphia.
British Parliament abolishes slavery in the entire British
Empire.
1839
The Amistad Insurrection
Timeline of Slavery in America continued….
Year
Event
1850
The Compromise of 1850 again brought up the issue of
slavery. California entered the union as a free state, but the
territories of New Mexico, Utah, and Texas were allowed to
decide, as individual states, the choice of being a slave state
or a free state. 1850 also saw the passage of another much
stricter Fugitive Slave Law being put into effect.
1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe published her novel, Uncle Tom's
Cabin, which became the best selling book and a major
influence for the Anti-Slavery Movement.
1854
The Dred Scott Case
1859
John Brown broke into the Federal Armory at Harper's Ferry,
Virginia
1860
Abraham Lincoln elected president. South Carolina secedes
from the Union
1861
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia all secede
from the Union
The Formation of the Confederate States of America takes
place
The attack on Fort Sumter begins
1861
The Civil War officially begins
1865
February 1, Abraham Lincoln ratifies the 13th Amendment
outlawing slavery throughout the whole United States.
The Civil War officially ends
Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 15, 1865.