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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.