1619
Slavery is introduced to North America at the British colony in Jamestown, Virginia.
1783
Great Britain grants independence to its thirteen American colonies, but slavery remains in place; by 1804, however, slavery is outlawed in all states north of the MasonDixon Line.
1789
Olaudah Equiano, a former slave and an abolitionist active in the movement to outlaw international slave trading, publishes The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, the first slave narrative written by a former slave.
1808
The U.S. Congress outlaws the importation of slaves; slave trading remains legal within the United States.
1829
David Walker, a black abolitionist freeman, publishes David Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles, an abolitionist tract.
1831
William Lloyd Garrison, a white abolitionist from Boston, begins publication of The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper; Nat Turner begins a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia; the rebellion is broken after a single.....
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