ABOLITION - a
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1442 |
Portuguese transport black slaves from Africa |
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15th – 19th centuries |
15 million Africans taken as slaves to the Americas |
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1776 |
Declaration of Independence |
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1787 |
U.S. Constitution |
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1777 – 1804 |
Slavery abolished in states north of Maryland |
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1807 |
Slave trade abolished in British colonies; importation of slaves abolished in U.S. |
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1820 |
Missouri Compromise |
Missouri admitted as 24th state, with no federal ban on slavery; Maine admitted as free state. Slavery banned north of 36 degrees, 30 minutes in the Louisiana Purchase. |
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1831 |
Nat Turner revolt |
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1833 |
Founding of the American Antislavery Society |
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1850 |
Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law |
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1852 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
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1854 |
Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Repeals the Missouri Compromise |
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1857 |
Dred Scott decision |
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1858 |
Lincoln-Douglas debates |
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1859 |
John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry |
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1861-1865 |
American Civil War |
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1863 |
Emancipation Proclamation |
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