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Congress passes law prohibits USA to partake in African slave trade.
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New York passes a law that frees all blacks in New York.
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Blacks and mixed blacks were not allowed to teach each other how to read and write.
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Congress defines slave trade as piracy.
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South Carolina arrested free blacks out of rumored plots to overthrow slavery. They also can arrest free blacks who go into their state.
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Maria Stewart , a free black woman, is the first to openly criticize slavery in front of the public.
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The rebellion in Virginia has resultedin the death of 70 whites and 100 blacks and is the most major slave revolt prior to the Civil War.
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William Lloyd Garrison forms the New England Anti Slavery Society to fight against slavery.
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South Carolina have burned anti slavery literature and exiled the authors of the books away from their state.
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Supreme Court has made a decision in Prigg v Pennsylvania that no state has the power to stop the removal of fugitive slaves.
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Sojourner Truth of New York speaks across the country to abolish slavery and give women rights.
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Frederick Douglas has relased his new newspaper called The North Star which spreads word about the audacity of slavery and analyzes the Constitution justifying the wrong doing of slavery.
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Whig and Liberty parties formed the Free Soil Party, which opposes the expansion of slavery into western land and wants the federal government to provide free land to settlers in the West.
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harriet Tubman used the Underground Railroad to help slaves in the South flee from their owners and helped at least 300 slaves up North.
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The act that was passed now gives the govenrment power to retrieve fugitive slaves from Southern States and denied slaves right to jury.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is published by Harriet Beecher Stowe and highlights the cruelty of slavery that make the South discontent. It has sold millions of copies the first year and became a success.
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Wendell Phillips and other anti slavery people target a federal courthouse within Boston where a slave his held. President Pierce orders the slave to go back to his master.
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The bill repeals the Missouri Compromise and grants the setttlers to choose for themselves to abolish or legalize slavery in their communities. This also gave birth to the Republican Party.
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An anti slavery uprising gives John Brown an oppurtunity to slay five pro slavery activists. This event is one of the many Free Soil vs Slavery Vigilantes in Kansas.
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U.S. Supreme Court rules that slavery is protected in the Constitution and that banning slavery is unconsitutional in Dred Scott v. Sandford. Every Justice who sides with the Chief Justice are all Southerners.
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John Brown and his 26 men plan to create a slave revolt by supplying them with weapons and ammunition from the federal arsenal. The raid failed and resulted in the death of his sons and later his own by execution.
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The secession of South Carolina would eventually spark the rest of the Southern States to secede from the Union and create the Confederacy to preserve their beliefs that include slavery.
