Slavery timeline

Harriet Tubman 

1. 1692 slaves are introduced into Jamestown
2. 1763 230,000 slaves in America 
3. 1860 demand for cotton textile four million African slaves
4. 1847 Harriet Tubman leader of the underground railroad
5. 1852 Fugitive Slave Act 
6. 1857 a slave doesn't get liberty by entering a free state 
7. 1860 Abe Lincoln wants to free the slaves
8. 1861 7 states seceded from America to form the Federation   
9. 1861 Civil war breaks out 



Abraham Lincoln 

10. civil war ends slaves are set free