ENGL 212 - brief history of slavery

1705 Virginia Slave Code

Enslaved Africans are defined as real estate thus allowing owners to bequeath salves and punish runaway slaves with death.

1739 Stono Rebellion

Africans in South Carolina revolt; defeated by white armed forces

What years did the American Revolution occur?

1776-1783

What was the Haitian Revolution?

It was a successful revolution that was led by Toussaint Louverture that established Haiti as a free republic in 1804

Denmark Vesey, a freed slave, attempts to revolt in Charleston, S.C. He was one of thirty five blacks charged with conspiracy and hanged.

Denmark Vesey’s Revolt in 1822

What happened in 1831?

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

A slave leads a revolt in Southhampton, Va. The revolt was crushed by armed white forces and Turner was hanged

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Made the helping of escaped slaves illegal in 1850

Fugitive Slave Act

In 1857, The U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent are not eligible for citzenship

Dred Scott v. Sanford

1859 John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry

John Brown, a white abolitionist, plots a slave rebellion at harper ferry, West Virginia. The rebellion was crushed within 36 hours by armed white forces, and Brown was hanged

when did the civil war begin

1861

In 1863, President Lincoln declares slaves in rebelling states free on January 1. What was this called?

Emancipation Proclamation

U.S. Constitution officially abolishes slavery. Civil war ends 1865

Thirteenth Amendment