Harriet Tubman |
- 1692 slaves are introduced into Jamestown
- 1763 230,000 slaves in America
- 1860 demand for cotton textile four million African slaves
- 1847 Harriet Tubman leader of the underground railroad
- 1852 Fugitive Slave Act
- 1857 a slave doesn't get liberty by entering a free state
- 1860 Abe Lincoln wants to free the slaves
- 1861 7 states seceded from America to form the Federation
- 1861 Civil war breaks out
- civil war ends slaves are set free
Abraham Lincoln |