| Date |
Event |
Trail Link |
| 1787 |
Continental Congress tries to recover Florida
slaves |
 |
| 1790 |
Treaty of New York signed with
Creeks |
 |
| 1795 |
Treaty of San Lorenzo ends Spanish edicts of
freedom |
|
| 1811 |
Congress authorizes covert action to seize
Florida |
|
| 1812-13 |
Patriot War |
 |
| 1814 |
Battle of Horseshoe Bend |
|
| 1816 |
U.S. blows up Negro Fort |
|
| 1817 |
1st Seminole War officially
begins |
|
| 1820 |
Missouri Compromise balances antislavery and slavery
states |
|
| 1823 |
Treaty of Moultrie Creek |
|
| 1827 |
Florida makes aiding slave-escapes punishable by
death |
|
| 1829 |
Andrew Jackson becomes President |
|
| 1830 |
Indian Removal Act passes |
|
| 1832 |
Treaty of Payne's Landing initiates removal
crisis in Florida |
|
| 1832 |
South Carolina forces "Nullification
Crisis" |
|
| 1835 |
2nd Seminole War begins |
|
| 1837 |
Jesup captures Osceola under white
flag |
|
| 1840 |
Zachary Taylor uses bloodhounds on
Seminoles |
|
| 1841 |
Joshua Giddings uses war to test "gag
rule" |
|
| 1842 |
2nd Seminole War ends |
|
| 1844 |
Congress repeals "gag rule" |
|
| 1848 |
U.S. "returns" Black Seminoles to
slavery |
|
| 1850 |
Congress passes Compromise of 1850 & Fugitive Slave
Act |
|
| 1851-59 |
Texas slavers try to capture Black Seminoles in
Mexico |
|
| 1855 |
Third Seminole War takes place in Florida |
|
| 1857 |
U.S. Supreme Court denies freedom for Dred
Scott |
|
| 1858 |
Giddings publishes antislavery
history, The Exiles of Florida |
|
| 1861 |
Gen. Fremont
frees Southern slaves in Northern lines |
|
| 1862 |
Abolitionists make case for
emancipation under war power |
|
| 1863 |
Lincoln issues Emancipation
Proclamation |
|
| 1865 |
With end of US Civil War, slave raids into Mexico
cease |
|
| 1870 |
Army musters Seminole Negro Indian Scouts in
Texas |
|
| 1873-81 |
Scouts help pacify West Texas
frontier |
|
| 1881 |
Scouts lead last major Indian raid in Texas
history |
|
| 1909 |
US Army phases out Scouts |
|
| 1914 |
Last Scouts disbanded, families forced from Fort
Clark |
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