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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| slaves to Brazil (authority) | |
| 1619 | Twenty slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia, making them the first slaves to arrive in North America (authority) |
| 1638 | First African slaves brought for sale in British Colonies |
| 1704 | Abda, a slave whose mother was a slave and whose father was white, sues his owner, Thomas Richards, pleading that he has been unlawfully enslaved due to his white heritage. Abda loses the case on appeal and is re-enslaved and sent back to Thomas Richards. (authority) |
| 1776 | U.S. Declaration of Independence. Section condemning slavery (authored by Virginia slave owner Thomas Jefferson) is dropped at the insistence of George and South Carolina. (authority) |
| 1777 | Vermont Constitution bans slavery (authority) |
| 1783 | U.S. Peace Treaty with England granting independence to the U.S. (Treat of Paris) (authority) |
| 1787 | Northwest Ordinance art. 6 abolishes slavery in the Northwest Territories |
| 1789 | U.S. Constitution 3/5's compromise (Const. art. I §2) and Fugitive Slave Act (Const. art. IV §2) |
| 1791 | Bill of Rights ratified |
| 1793 | Fugitive Slave Act adopted to enforce Constitutional provision |
| 1808 | Importation of slaves banned U.S. Constitution art. I §9, clause 1; art. 5 |
| 1843 | Prigg v. Pennsylvania 41 U.S. (16 Pet.) 539 (1842): Supreme Court declares unconstitutional a Pennsylvania statute intended to prevent slave owners from using self-help to return fugitive slaves. |
| 1849 | Roberts v. City of Boston, 59 Mass. 198 (1849): Massachusetts Supreme Court declares separate black and white schools legal |
| 1850 | Compromise of 1850 strengthens 1793 Fugitive Slave Act |
| 1855 | Massachusetts overturns effect of Roberts v. City of Boston 59 Mass. 198 (1949) by abolishing segregated schools legislatively |
| 1857 | Dred Scott v. Sanford 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857) |
| 1861-1865 | Civil War |
| 1/1/1863 | Emancipation Proclamation takes effect |
| 1865 | Civil War Ends |
| 1865 | Black Codes enacted across South to keep African Americans in peonage |
| 12/6/1865 | 13th Amendment Ratified (banning slavery) |
| 1866 | Civil Rights Act provides federal guarantee of rights to contract, to own property, and to sue |
| 1867 | Howard University Founded |
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