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= = Life Of Slavery

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= = =Timeline = 1619: At Jamestown, Virginia, about 20 captive Africans are sold for slavery in the British North American colonies.  1641: Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery.  1662: Virginia enacts a law of hereditary slavery meaning that a child that is born to an enslaved mother, and she inherits her slave status.  1676: In Virginia, black slaves and black and white indentured servants got together to participate in Bacon’s Rebellion.  1705: The Virginia Slave Code codifies slave status, declaring all non-Christian servants entering the colony to be slaves.  1731: The Spanish reverse a 1730 decision and declare that slaves fleeing to Florida from Carolina will not be sold or returned.  1739: Slaves in Stono, South Carolina, rebel, sacking and burning an armory and killing whites.  1773: The first separate black church in America is found in South Carolina. 1781: Mum Bett and another Massachusetts slave successfully sue their master for freedom.  1787: The Northwest Ordinance forbids slavery.  1793: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin, making cotton production more profitable.  1817: The American Colonization Society is found to help free blacks to resettle in Africa.  1820: The Missouri Compromise forbids slavery in the Louisiana territory north of Missouri’s Southern border.  1831: Nat Turner, an enslaved Baptist preacher believing himself divinely inspired, leads a violent rebellion in Southampton, Virginia. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 1837: New York City hosts the first National Anti-Slavery Society Convention. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 1848: Anti-Slavery groups organize the Free Soil Party. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 1850: The Compromise of 1850 confirms California to the Union as a free state, <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 1857: The U.S Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford denies citizenship to all slaves, ex-slaves and descendants of slaves and denies Congress. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 1860: Election of 1860 when Abraham Lincoln is elected to the presidency. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 1862: Congress abolishes slavery in Washington, D.C, and the territories. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 1863: Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in areas of rebellion. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 1865: The thirteenth amendment to the U.S Constitution abolishes slavery throughout the country. <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> 1866: Two African Americans sit in the Massachusetts Legislature.

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">North Carolinians and Abolition
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Missouri Compromise an agreement made in 1820 that allowed slavery in some states (including the south) and not others.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Abolitionist: opponents of slavery.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">North Carolina Manumission Society a group of abolitionist who raised money to buy slaves from their others.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Demand for cotton led to the state supporting slavery.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Abolitionist were run out of the state.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Black Codes >
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">1865: Jonathan Worth became governor, 13th Amendment was ratified, and a new state constitution was drafted.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Freedman (former slaves): social status defined by new laws called black codes
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Black Codes allowed for marriage, education, and property ownership, but denied other rights that whites had. They could not move, change jobs, own guns, or serve on juries.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Southern states were told to repeal Black Codes or the would not be readmitted to the Union.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Holden and the Republican party complied with congress.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">1867: Republicans won the election with the help of black voters.
 * <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">23 of the delegates who met were former slaves.

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