How Slavery Was Used In The Making Of America

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How Slavery Was Used In The Making Of America

Cornell University Professor Edward E. Baptist author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism explains the absurd Economist review of his book that blamed him for not being fair to slave owners, stolen capital and stolen labor, slavery and the foundations of the global economy, the economics of […]

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Slaves Petition for Freedom

Massachusetts slaves petitioned the state legislature for freedom. A bill was drawn and passed by the Mass. legislature. But the governor witheld approval and the measure never became law.

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Jun

25

1773

A New Jersey legislative act requires that slaveholdersteach their slaves to r

A New Jersey legislative act requires that slaveholders teach their slaves to read.

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Jan

0

1788

Virginia statue provides that baptism will not affectthe bondage of slaves.

Virginia statue provides that baptism will not affect the bondage of slaves.

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Jan

0

1667

The Freeman's Bureau.

The Freemans Bureau was established by Congress on March 3, 1865. The bureau was designed to protect the interests of former slaves. This included helping them to find new employment and to improve educational and health facilities. In the year that followed the bureau spent $17,000,000

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Mar

3

1865

Wash., D.C. Slave Emancipation and Reparations

On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this act came

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Apr

16

1862

Belizean Kriols

By the 1500s, black slaves had been distributed through much of the Caribbean. Slavery, however, began much later in Central America. By 1724 the British were transporting slaves from Jamaica to Belize to cut logwood, particularly Mahogany. These slaves became known as

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(1860) Abraham Lincoln, “Cooper Union Address”

On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln, a presidential candidate who had yet to win the Republican nomination, accepted an invitation to speak to the Young Mens Republican Union at Cooper Union Hall before a capacity crowd of 1,500. Lincoln used the occasion to outline his views on slavery in the

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Feb

27

1860

France abolishes slavery.

France abolishes slavery. The nation will have a lukewarm commitment to abolition and will, under Napoleon, reestablish slavery in 1802 along with the reinstitution of the Code noir, prohibiting blacks, mulattoes and other people of color from entering French colonial territory or intermarrying

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Feb

4

1794

(1830) Rev. Peter Williams, Jr. “This is Our Country”

Fourteen years after its founding the American Colonization Society remained controversial among African Americans. By 1830 many of them opposed it and more generally the idea of forced or voluntary repatriation of blacks to Africa. One of these opponents, Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., the minister

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Jul

4

1830

District of Columbia abolishes slavery

District of Columbia abolishes slavery

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Feb

2

1862

Slave Revolt in Long Island

Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island (N.Y.). Seven whites killed. Two Black male slaves and an Indian slave were hanged, and a Black woman was burned alive.

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Feb

28

1708

(1890) Joseph C. Price, “Education and the Problem,”

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Council of general officers decided to bar slaves

Council of general officers decided to bar slaves and free Blacks from Continental Army.

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Oct

8

1775

First fugitive slave law enacted by Congress

In 1793, Congress passed the first Fugitive Slave Law to implement the provisions in the Constitution. It stated that to reclaim an escaped slave a master needed only to go before a magistrate and provide oral or written proof of ownership. The magistrate would then issue an order for the arrest of

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Feb

12

1793

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to Freedmens Bureau bill authorizing the distribution of public land and confiscated land to freedmen and loyal refugees in forty acre lots. The measure was defeated in the House by a vote of 126 to 37. A Black delegation, led by Frederick Douglas

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Feb

5

1866

Congress bans the slave trade

Congress banned the slave trade, prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States or the territories thereof after January 1, 1808.

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Jan

1

1808

President Lincoln's Promise

President Lincoln, in preliminary Emancipation Proclamation warned South that he would free slaves in all states in rebellion on January 1, 1863.

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Jan

1

1863

A South Carolina act prohibits teaching slaves to write.

A South Carolina act prohibits teaching slaves to write.

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Jan

0

1740

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Dred Scott v. Sandford, United States Supreme Court, 1857

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A Quena woman was shown in Europe as a circus

A Quena woman was shown in Europe as a circus

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Jan

0

1815

(1863) Rev. Jonathan C. Gibbs, “Freedom's Joyful Day”

African Americans throughout the North held meetings and church services on January 1, 1863 to celebrate the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. Almost always the festivities revolved around a central speaker. One of those speeches was delivered by Rev. Jonathan C. Gibbs, pastor of the First

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Gov. Theophilus Eaton of the New Haven, CT, colony frees his slaves, John Wham and his wife; this is the earliest account of free blacks in New England, as recorded in the Public Records of the State of Connecticut.

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Jan

0

1646

President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation

President Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in rebel states with exception of thirteen parishes (including New Orleans) in Louisiana, forty-eight countries in West Virginia, seven countries (including Norfolk) in Eastern Virginia. Proclamation did not apply to slaves in

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Jan

1

1863

Mason, Bridget "Biddy" (1818 - 1891)

Bridget “Biddy” Mason, born a slave in Mississippi in 1818, achieved financial success that enabled her to support her extended family for generations despite the fact that she was illiterate. In a landmark case she sued her master for their freedom, saved her earnings, invested in real

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Jan

19

1856

The Dred Scott decision.

On March 6, 1857, the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court denied Blacks U.S. citizenship and denied the power of Congress to restrict slavery in any federal territory.

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Mar

6

1857

South Carolina constitutional convention

South Carolina constitutional convention, the first official assembly in the West with a Black majority, met in the Charleston Clubhouse with seventy-six Black delegates and forty-eight white delegates. Two-thirds of the Black delegates were former slaves. A New York Herald reporter wrote: Here in

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Jan

14

1868

Death of Emperor Haile Selassie

Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia died in 1975 at the age of 83. During his reign, Selassies main ambitions included the modernization of Ethiopia, international recognition for his nation, the abolishment of slavery, expanded eduacation and the elimination of foreign intervention. In 1936, a year

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Aug

27

1975

South Carolina was declared "independent

South Carolina was declared an independent commonwealth. BLACKS IN CONFEDERACY: Confederacy was the first to recognize that Blacks were major factors in the war. South impressed slaves to work in mines, repair railroads and build fortifications, thereby releasing a disproportionately large

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Dec

18

1859

Touissant L'Ouverture, born

Birthday of Haitian revolutionary Pierre-Dominique Touissant LOverture. There had been slave revolts before: in the Caribbean, in South America, and in

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May

20

1743

Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the

Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the Capitol, delivered memorial sermon on the abolition of slavery at services in the House of Representatives. Henry Highland Garnet was born a slave in New Market, Maryland, in 1815. He escaped in 1824 and made his way to New York where he studied at

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Feb

12

1865

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