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1415
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Portugese Explore Africa.
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1482
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Pope Pio II condemns the slave trade while the Portugese build
the first slave-trading post at Elmina, Gold Coast.
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1539
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First African-American settler lives among the Native Americans
in Alabama.
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1553
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The First British ships arrive in Africa.
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1562
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The first recognition of the slave trade by British government;
300 slaves obtained by the British and taken to Hispaniola.
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1565
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The Spanish take slaves to St. Augustine, the first permanent settlement
in what would become Florida.
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1619
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Africans brought to Jamestown, Virginia, marking the first slaves
brought into the British colonies.
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1712
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Britain obtains 30-year monopoly on slave trade from Spain.
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1713
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Britain becomes the largest trader of African slaves.
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1775
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Revolutionary war begins.
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1776
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Declaration of Independence signed.
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1777
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Slaves emancipated in Massachusetts; slavery abolished in Pennsylvania.
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1783
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Revolutionary War ends.
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1786
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Slavery abolished in Vermont.
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1787
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The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade is founded in
England. A small colony is established in Sierra Leone, Africa, for former
slaves.
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1791
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Freetown, Sierra Leone founded.
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1793
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Introduction of the Cotton Gin enables the south to become a one-crop
region heavily dependent on slaves for labor.
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1808
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Congress prohibits the importation of African slaves into the U.S.
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1810
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3rd U.S. Census shows a population of 7.2 million including 1.2
million slaves.
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1817
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American Society for the Return of Negroes to Africa is founded.
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1820
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Liberia established as a colony for American Africans; Missouri
Compromise is passed by Congress allowing slavery north of lattitude 36
30'.
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1820-1833
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Around 1500 blacks sent to Africa by the American Colonization
Society.
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1822
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Liberia is founded as an African Colony for freed American slaves.
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1824
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Abolition of slavery in Central America.
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1826
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Abolition of slavery in Brazil (north of equator).
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1827
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Slavery abolished in New York.
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1833
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First convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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1838
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Slavery abolished in Great Britain.
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1839 (Early)
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Amistad Africans kidnapped.
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1839 (Spring)
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The Tecora sets sail on the Middle Passage to the new world with
the kidnapped Africans.
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June 28, 1839
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Amistad sails from one end of Cuba to another.
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July 1, 1839
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The Africans revolt aboard the Amistad killing the captain and
the cook.
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August 26, 1839
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The ill-fated Amistad ends up off course in New England.
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August 29, 1839
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Amistad is captured at Montauk Pt. Long Island. A hearing is held
where the Amistad Africans are ordered to stand trial for mutiny and murder.
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November, 1839
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The U.S. Circuit Court trial begins in Hartford, CT.
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1840
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The U.S. District Court trial begins in New Haven, CT.; Presidential
Election.
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1848
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War and California, Texas
and other western states are ceded to the U.S.; slavery abolished in France.
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1850
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California adopts a constitution forbidding slavery. Fugitive Slave
Law strengthened.
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1857
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Dred Scott Decision holds that a Negro slave's residence in free
territory does not make him free. Missouri Compromise declared unconstitutional
saying that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in the territories.
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1859
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Abolitionist John Brown seizes arsenal at Harper's Ferry, W. VA
hoping to start slave insurrection.
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1860
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Abraham Lincoln elected president. Southern states begin to secede
from the Union.
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1861
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U.S. Civil War begins.
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1863
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Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln.
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1865
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U.S. Civil War ends. Slavery abolished.
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1866
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14th Amendment passes securing the civil rights of negroes.
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1869
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15th Amendment passes stating that right to vote shall not be denied
because of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
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1896
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Plessy vs. Ferguson established "separate but equal" as being constitutional.
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