| Date |
Event |
Trail Link |
| 1586 |
Drake leaves 88 free blacks at Roanoke |
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| 1608 |
Angolan slave leads rebellion of
cimarrons in Mexico |
 |
| 1655-6 |
Spain uses Jamaican maroons against British |
|
| 1693 |
Spanish Florida offers freedom to British slaves |
 |
| 1712 |
New York City slave revolt leads
to mass reprisals |
|
| 1714-16 |
Yamassee War takes place in
Carolinas |
|
| 1716 |
Carolinians complain of losing slaves to Spanish |
|
| 1716-31 |
African slave trade booms in Carolinas |
|
| 1725 |
Fugitive blacks found living with Creeks in Florida |
|
| 1728 |
British attack St. Augustine |
|
| 1728 |
British enlist Creeks and Cherokees to recover slaves |
|
| 1730s |
Spanish give refuge to slaves from Carolinas |
|
| 1732 |
Oglethorpe founds Georgia |
|
| 1736 |
Black defenders of St. Augustine
join organized militia |
|
| 1738 |
Spanish establish Mose on
outskirts of St. Augustine |
|
| 1739 |
Jamaica grants freedom to maroon warriors |
|
| 1739 |
Stono rebellion takes place south
of Charleston |
|
| 1739-42 |
War of Jenkin's Ear sends British
forces into Florida |
|
| 1741 |
Fears of New York slave rebellion lead to mass reprisals |
|
| 1781-84 |
British Florida plagued by slave rebellions |
|
| 1784 |
British evacuate Florida, leave many black refugees |
|
| 1791-1804 |
Haitian uprising leads to first
black republic |
|
| 1793 |
Invention of cotton gin transforms Southern economy |
|
| 1800 |
Conspiracy of Gabriel Prosser
occurs in Richmond, Virginia |
|
| 1807 |
British slave trade abolished |
|
| 1808 |
U.S. bans foreign slave trade |
|
| 1811 |
Deslondes slave revolt takes
place in Louisiana |
|
| 1820 |
Missouri Compromise balances antislavery and slavery states |
|
| 1822 |
Conspiracy of Denmark Vesey fails
in Charleston |
|
| 1827 |
Florida makes aiding slave-escapes punishable by death |
|
| 1829 |
Mexico outlaws slavery |
|
| 1831 |
Nat Turner rebellion terrorizes
Virginia |
|
| 1833 |
British emancipate slaves across
colonial empire |
|
| 1835-36 |
Black Seminole slave rebellion
peaks in Florida |
|
| 1844 |
Congress repeals "gag rule" |
|
| 1850 |
Congress passes Compromise of 1850 & Fugitive Slave Act |
|
| 1851-59 |
Texas slavers try to capture Black Seminoles in Mexico |
|
| 1857 |
U.S. Supreme Court denies freedom for Dred Scott |
|
| 1861 |
Seminoles of Oklahoma work with Confederacy |
|
| 1861 |
Gen. Fremont
frees Southern slaves in Northern lines |
|
| 1862 |
Abolitionists make case for
emancipation under war power |
|
| 1862 |
Southern contrabands force issue
of wartime emancipation |
|
| 1863 |
Lincoln issues Emancipation
Proclamation |
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