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Ida B Wells        1862-1931

 

 

 

Ida B Wells    (1862–1931)

 

She was born into slavery in Mississippi

but freed during the American civil war.

 

As a pioneering journalist and editor,

she worked tirelessly to expose racial injustice.

 

She spent months travelling alone

around the American south

to investigate the horrors of lynching,

and campaigned against segregation.

 

In 1910,

she co-founded the National Association

for the Advancement of Colored People.

 

Eminent Victorians:

19th-century celebrity portraits – in pictures

 

As a new picture of Billy the Kid

goes on sale for $1m,

these photographs showcase

some of the most significant

people of the 19th century

to be captured on camera

G

Thu 21 Nov 2019    16.32 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/nov/21/
eminent-victorians-19th-century-celebrity-portraits-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

African-American

investigative

journalist,

educator,

and an early leader

in the civil rights

movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells

 

 

 

She was born

into slavery

in Mississippi

but freed during

the American civil war.

 

As a pioneering

journalist and editor,

she worked tirelessly

to expose

racial injustice.

 

She spent months

travelling alone

around

the American south

to investigate

the horrors of lynching,

and campaigned

against segregation.

 

In 1910,

she co-founded

the National Association

for the Advancement

of Colored People.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/nov/21/
eminent-victorians-19th-century-celebrity-portraits-in-pictures

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/nov/21/
eminent-victorians-19th-century-celebrity-portraits-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross)        1822-1913

 

 

 

Under a proposed redesign of the $20 bill,

Harriet Tubman would have replaced

Andrew Jackson.

 

Photograph:

Universal History Archive/Getty Images

 

Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Is Delayed Until Trump Leaves Office,

Mnuchin Says

NYT

May 22, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/
us/harriet-tubman-bill.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/
775148791/the-superhero-journey-of-harriet-tubman-now-on-film

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/
us/harriet-tubman-bill.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/22/
725801691/harriet-tubman-on-the-20-bill-not-during-the-trump-administration

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/03/
slave-rescuer-harriet-tubman-to-be-subject-of-hollywood-biopic

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/27/
475768129/nurse-spy-cook-how-harriet-tubman-found-freedom-through-food

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/24/
harriet-tubman-20-bill-myths-freed-slaves-quotes

 

https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=475161438:475161441 - April 21, 2016

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2013/03/06/
173624827/harriet-tubman-was-tough-and-tender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe    1811-1896

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From its very first moments,

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s

debut novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin

was a smashing success.

 

It sold out

its 5,000-copy print run

in four days in 1852,

with one newspaper declaring that

“everybody has read it, is reading,

or is about to read it”.

 

Soon, 17 printing presses

were running around the clock

to keep up with demand.

 

By the end

of its first year in print,

the book had sold more

than 300,000 copies

in the US alone,

and another million

in Great Britain.

 

It went on to become

the bestselling novel

of the 19th century.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/19/
josiah-henson-the-forgotten-story-slavery-uncle-tom-s-cabin 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/19/
josiah-henson-the-forgotten-story-slavery-uncle-tom-s-cabin

 

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/04/
137561902/-harriet-beecher-stowe-freeing-slaves-promoting-change

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=93059468 - July 30, 2008

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=5188487 - Feb. 4, 2006

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=1147132 - July 23, 2002

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/mar/30/
race.society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frederick Douglass    1818-1895

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

(October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893)

was the 19th president of the United States

from 1877 to 1881,

after serving

in the U.S. House of Representatives

and as governor of Ohio.

 

A lawyer and staunch abolitionist,

he had defended refugee slaves

in court proceedings

during the antebellum years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes - Ovember 7, 2020

 

 

 

With the future of Reconstruction

on the ballot,

the presidential election of 1876

was hard fought.

 

Tilden decisively defeated Hayes

in the popular vote by about 250,000 votes,

but in four states

— Florida, Louisiana,

Oregon, and South Carolina —

both parties claimed

to have won electoral votes.

 

At that point,

Tilden needed only

one more electoral vote to win,

so any of the four would suffice.

 

However,

Republicans still controlled

the election canvassing boards

and governorships in the three southern states,

which led to the manipulation of vote counts

and the subsequent awarding of electoral votes

to Hayes.

 

Democrats refused to give up

and sent competing slates of electors

for Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina

to Congress.

 

In addition,

the Democrats challenged

the eligibility of one of Oregon’s electors,

a fail-safe that would lead to a Tilden win

even if Hayes claimed victory

in the three Southern states.

 

In January 1877,

Congress convened

a special Electoral Commission

to resolve the disputes,

and the Commission broke 8 to 7

in favor of Hayes

in all four of the contested states.

 

Democrats, undeterred,

tried to delay

the counting of the electoral votes

before the joint session

of Congress on Feb. 28,

which would deny Hayes a majority

and send the election

to the House of Representatives.

 

The inauguration

was only four days away,

and there was a real danger

of both parties

trying to have their candidate

take the oath of office.

 

Enter Samuel Randall.

 

As the newly appointed

speaker of the House,

Randall refused

to allow members of his party

to delay the vote count,

which they had sought to do

by producing

yet another competing slate

of electors of dubious origins

from the state of Vermont.

 

When Randall rejected these efforts,

one of his fellow Democrats

tried to physically attack him,

and others began reaching for their guns.

 

Randall

had to call the sergeant-at-arms

to restore order.

 

Remarkably,

Randall halted the delaying tactics

that would have increased

the likelihood of dueling inaugurations

and subsequent violence.

 

His actions brought the count

to a nonviolent end on March 2,

just two days before the inauguration.

 

Upon becoming speaker,

Randall had pledged

“absolute fairness to both sides …

in exercising the parliamentary powers

of the chair.”

 

With his decisive action

in resolving the disputed election of 1876,

he kept that promise,

even when doing so required decisions

not in his party’s interest.

 

In the end,

Democrats acquiesced

to the election of the Republican Hayes

over their own candidate, Tilden,

on the condition that Hayes agree

to remove federal troops

from the Southern states.

 

Hayes’s elevation to the presidency

effectively ended Reconstruction

and changed

the trajectory of American history,

but in the months

between the election and the inauguration,

a nonviolent resolution was far from certain.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/us/samuel-randall-1876-election.html

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes - November 7, 2020

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/
us/samuel-randall-1876-election.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wendell Phillips    1811-1884

 

one of the nation’s

most prominent

antislavery leaders

 

 

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/
the-abolitionists-epiphany/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Josiah Henson    1789-1883

 

 

 

An astounding story …

Josiah Henson,

photographed in Boston, 1876

 

 

Josiah Henson: the forgotten story in the history of slavery

His life partly inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

He was entertained

at both Windsor Castle and the White House.

He rescued more than 100 enslaved people.

But barely anyone has heard of him

G

Fri 19 Jun 2020    15.27 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/19/
josiah-henson-the-forgotten-story-slavery-uncle-tom-s-cabin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/19/
josiah-henson-the-forgotten-story-slavery-uncle-tom-s-cabin

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=5251349 - March 8, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sojourner Truth (Born Isabella Baumfree)        c 1797-1883

 

 

 

Born Isabella Baumfree in New York state,

the African American lived in slavery

until she escaped with her daughter in 1826.

 

She then took on

a white man in the courts

to be reunited with her son,

who has been illegally sold into slavery,

and won – the first victory of its kind.

 

Truth dedicated her life

to the abolition movement and women’s rights,

helping to liberate many slaves,

and is renowned for her “Ain’t I a woman?”

speech of 1851.

 

Eminent Victorians:

19th-century celebrity portraits – in pictures

 

As a new picture of Billy the Kid

goes on sale for $1m,

these photographs showcase

some of the most significant

people of the 19th century

to be captured on camera

G

Thu 21 Nov 2019    16.32 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/nov/21/
eminent-victorians-19th-century-celebrity-portraits-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Born Isabella Baumfree

in New York state,

the African American

lived in slavery

until she escaped

with her daughter

in 1826.

 

She then took on

a white man

in the courts

to be reunited

with her son,

who has been illegally

sold into slavery,

and won –

the first victory

of its kind.

 

Truth dedicated her life

to the abolition movement

and women’s rights,

helping to liberate

many slaves,

and is renowned

for her “Ain’t I a woman?”

speech of 1851.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/nov/21/
eminent-victorians-19th-century-celebrity-portraits-in-pictures

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/nov/21/
eminent-victorians-19th-century-celebrity-portraits-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow    1807-1882

 

 

Longfellow,

a passionately

private man,

was,

just as passionately

and privately,

an abolitionist.

 

His best friend

was Charles Sumner,

for whom he wrote,

in 1842,

a slim volume called

“Poems on Slavery.”

 

Sumner,

a brash

and aggressive

politician,

delivered

stirring speeches

attacking

slave owners;

 

Longfellow,

a gentler soul,

wrote

verses mourning

the plight of slaves,

poems “so mild,”

he wrote,

“that even

a slaveholder

might read them

without losing

his appetite

for breakfast.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/opinion/19Lepore.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/
opinion/19Lepore.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Sumner    1811-1874

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/
opinion/19Lepore.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reconstruction

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/
opinion/sunday/why-reconstruction-matters.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1867

 

Reconstruction Acts

 

 

The Reconstruction Acts of 1867

required the former Confederate states

to register voters,

both Black and white,

by having all men sign

an oath of allegiance

to the United States.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2020/nov/01/
georgia-voter-suppression-in-pictures

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2020/nov/01/
georgia-voter-suppression-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ku Klux Klan    K.K.K.

 

Founded

in the era of Reconstruction,

the KKK used terroristic violence

to suppress Black voting

and political efforts.

 

Their brutality paved the way

for conservative whites

to regain control

of southern legislatures,

effectively ending Reconstruction.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2020/nov/01/
georgia-voter-suppression-in-pictures

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2020/nov/01/
georgia-voter-suppression-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham Lincoln    February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jan. 31, 1865

 

Thirteenth Amendment

 

 

The thirteenth amendment

to the U.S. Constitution

abolishes slavery

throughout the country

 

 

ON Jan. 31, 1865,

Congress passed

the 13th Amendment,

banning slavery

in America.

 

It was an achievement

that abolitionists

had spent decades

fighting for

— and one for which

their movement

has been lauded

ever since.

 

But before

abolitionism succeeded,

it failed.

 

As a pre-Civil War

movement,

it was a flop.

 

Antislavery congressmen

were able to push through

their amendment

because of the absence

of the pro-slavery South,

and the complicated

politics of the Civil War.

 

Abolitionism’s

surprise victory

has misled generations

about how change

gets made.

 

(...)

 

It’s hard to accept

just how unpopular

abolitionism was

before the Civil War.

 

The abolitionist

Liberty Party

never won a majority

in a single county,

anywhere in America,

in any presidential race.

 

(...)

 

In 1860

the premier

antislavery newspaper,

The Liberator,

had a circulation

of under 3,000,

in a nation of 31 million.

 

Even among Northerners

who wanted to stop

the spread of slavery,

the idea of banning

it altogether

seemed fanatical.

 

On the eve

of the Civil War,

America’s greatest sage,

Ralph Waldo Emerson,

predicted that slavery

might end one day,

but “we shall not live

to see it.”

 

In a deeply racist society,

where most white Americans,

South and North,

valued sectional unity

above equal rights,

“abolitionist”

was usually a dirty word.

 

One man

who campaigned

for Abraham Lincoln

in 1860 complained:

“I have been denounced

as impudent, foppish,

immature,

and worse than all,

an Abolitionist.”

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/was-abolitionism-a-failure/

 

 

https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1865.html 

 

https://guides.loc.gov/13th-amendment

 

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/
was-abolitionism-a-failure/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 19th, 1863 / Juneteenth

 

 

 

 

What is Juneteenth – and should it be a federal holiday in the US?        Video        G        18 June 2020

 

Every 19 June for more than 150 years

African Americans across the US

have celebrated freedom from slavery.

 

Guardian US reporter Kenya Evelyn

explores the significance of Juneteenth,

how celebrations have evolved over the years

and looks at whether it is time for the holiday

to receive federal recognition

G

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Az6hJaNEbSU

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az6hJaNEbSU
video - G - 18 June 2020

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=91633172
June 18, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 1, 1863

 

President Abraham Lincoln

issued

the Emancipation Proclamation

on January 1, 1863,

as the nation approached

its third year of bloody civil war.

 

The proclamation declared

"that all persons held as slaves"

within the rebellious states

"are, and henceforward shall be free."

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/
emancipation-proclamation

 

 

 

Lincoln issues

the Emancipation

Proclamation,

freeing all slaves

in areas of rebellion

 

Lincoln puts forth

a reconstruction plan

offering amnesty

to white Southerners

who take loyalty oaths

and accept

the abolition

of slavery.

 

State government

can be formed

in those states

where at least

10 percent of voters

comply with

these terms.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1863.html

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1863.html

 

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/freedom-and-restraint/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1862

 

Congress

abolishes slavery

in Washington, D.C.,

and the territories

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1862.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 22, 1862

 

Lincoln

issues Emancipation Proclamation

 

 

On September 22, 1862,

President Abraham Lincoln

issues a preliminary

Emancipation Proclamation,

which sets a date for the freedom

of more than 3 million black slaves

in the United States

and recasts the Civil War

as a fight against slavery.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/
lincoln-issues-emancipation-proclamation

 

 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/
lincoln-issues-emancipation-proclamation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Brown    1800-1859

 

On October 16, 1859,

John Brown

led 21 men on a raid

of the federal arsenal

at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

 

His plan to arm slaves

with the weapons

he and his men seized

from the arsenal

was thwarted

by local farmers,

militiamen,

and Marines led

by Robert E. Lee.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3b.html 

 

 

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/
in-camp-reading-les-miserables/

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/
arts/design/28brown.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Compromise of 1850

admits

California to the Union

as a free state,

allows the slave states

of New Mexico and Utah

to be decided

by popular sovereignty,

and bans slave trade

in D.C.

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1850.html

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black Abolitionists

 

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/02/26/
388993874/how-black-abolitionists-changed-a-nation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1848

 

Anti-slavery groups

organize

the Free Soil Party,

a group opposed

to the westward

expansion of slavery

from which

the Republican Party

will later be born

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1848.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1837

 

New York City

hosts the first National

Anti-Slavery Society Convention

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1837.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1831

 

Nat Turner,

an enslaved

Baptist preacher

believing himself

divinely inspired,

leads

a violent rebellion

in Southampton,

Virginia.

 

At least 57 whites

are killed

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1831.html

 

 

http://international.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1829

 

In Boston, Massachusetts,

David Walker publishes

his widely read

vociferous condemnation

of slavery,

AN APPEAL

TO THE COLORED CITIZENS

OF THE WORLD

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1829.html

 

 

http://international.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denmark Vesey        1767-1822

 

black abolitionist

who was executed

in 1822

for leading

a failed slave rebellion

(Charleston, S.C.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/opinion/abolitionist-or-terrorist.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/
opinion/abolitionist-or-terrorist.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1820

 

Missouri Compromise

 

 

In an effort

to preserve

the balance of power

in Congress

between

slave and free states,

the Missouri Compromise

was passed in 1820

admitting Missouri

as a slave state

and Maine

as a free state.

 

Furthermore,

with the exception

of Missouri,

this law prohibited

slavery

in the Louisiana Territory

north of the 36° 30´

latitude line.

 

In 1854,

the Missouri Compromise

was repealed

by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

 

Three years later

the Missouri Compromise

was declared

unconstitutional

by the Supreme Court

in the Dred Scott decision,

which ruled that Congress

did not have the authority

to prohibit slavery

in the territories.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Missouri.html

 

 

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Missouri.html

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1820.html

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h511.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1817

 

The American Colonization Society

is founded to help free blacks

resettle in Africa

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1817.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1811

 

(...) in January of 1811,

a group

of enslaved people

on a plantation

on the outskirts

of New Orleans

rose up,

armed themselves

and began

a long march

toward the city.

 

Hundreds

would join them

along the way.

 

Their goal:

to free every slave

they found

and then seize

the Crescent City.

 

The rebellion

came to be known

as the German Coast

Uprising

and it's believed

to be the largest

slave rebellion

in United States history.

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/09/µ
777810796/hundreds-march-in-reenactment-of-a-historic-but-long-forgotten-slave-rebellion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/09/µ
777810796/hundreds-march-in-reenactment-of-a-historic-but-long-forgotten-slave-rebellion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1808

 

The U.S. bans

international slave trading

 

 

on January 1st, 1808,

the U.S. officially banned

the importation of slaves.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=17988106 - January 10, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h92.html

 

 

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/18/
423803204/remembering-new-orleans-overlooked-ties-to-slavery

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=17988106 - January 10, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1787

 

The Northwest Ordinance

forbids slavery,

except as

criminal punishment,

in the Northwest Territory

(later Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,

Michigan, and Wisconsin).

 

Residents

of the territory

are required

to return

fugitive slaves

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1787.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pennsylvania’s

Gradual Abolition Act of 1780

 

The act began

dismantling slavery,

eventually releasing

people from bondage

after their 28th birthdays.

 

Under the law,

any slave

who entered

Pennsylvania

with an owner

and lived in the state

for longer

than six months

would be set free

automatically.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/opinion/george-washington-slave-catcher.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/
opinion/george-washington-slave-catcher.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1739

 

Slaves in Stono,

South Carolina,

rebel,

sacking and burning

an armory

and killing whites.

 

The colonial militia

puts an end

to the rebellion

before slaves

are able

to reach freedom

in Florida

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1739.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1781

 

Mum Bett

and another

Massachusetts slave

successfully sue

their master

for freedom

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1781.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1731

 

The Spanish

reverse

a 1730 decision

and declare

that slaves fleeing

to Florida

from Carolina

will not be sold

or returned

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1731.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1712

 

An alleged

slave revolt

in New York City

leads to violent

outbreaks.

 

Nine whites

are killed

and eighteen slaves

are executed

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1712.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1671

 

Bacon's Rebellion

 

 

In Virginia,

black slaves

and black and white

indentured servants

band together

to participate

in Bacon's Rebellion

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/1676.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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race relations, racism, civil rights,

apartheid

 

 

 

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/13/
us-slavery-400-years-virginia-point-comfort

 

 

 

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