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Oct 14, 2009 · Nat Turner’s Revolt, August 1831. In August 1831, Nat Turner struck fear into the hearts of white Southerners by leading the only effective slave rebellion in U.S. history.
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Colonial North America's slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier, Desire, is built and launched in Massachusetts. 1640 John Punch, a runaway black servant, is sentenced to servitude for life. His two white companions are given extended terms of servitude. Punch is the first documented slave for life. 1640
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- When Did Slavery Start in America? Slavery and the Presidency. In the 17th and 18th centuries, enslaved Africans worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast, from the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Maryland and Virginia south to Georgia.
- Cotton Gin. Civil War Culture. In the late 18th century, with the land used to grow tobacco nearly exhausted, the South faced an economic crisis, and the continued growth of slavery in America seemed in doubt.
- Living Conditions of Enslaved People. Enslaved people in the antebellum South constituted about one-third of the southern population. Most lived on large plantations or small farms; many enslavers owned fewer than 50 enslaved people.
- Slave Rebellions. Slavery in America. Rebellions among enslaved people did occur—notably, ones led by Gabriel Prosser in Richmond in 1800 and by Denmark Vesey in Charleston in 1822—but few were successful.
A timeline of significant events concerning slavery, the abolitionist movement and the ongoing fight for Civil Rights in the United States, from the slave trade in the late 15th century until modern times.
Though the Union victory freed the nation's four million enslaved people, the legacy of slavery influenced American history, from the chaotic years of Reconstruction (1865-77) to the civil rights movement that emerged in the 1950s.
African American History Timeline. Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage to the New World opening a vast new empire for plantation slavery. The first Africans arrive in Hispaniola with Christopher Columbus. They are free persons. The Spanish king allows the introduction of enslaved Africans into Spain's American colonies. The first ...
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By 1770, there were 397,924 blacks out of a population of 2.17 million in what would soon become the United States. The slaves of the colonial era were unevenly distributed: 14,867 lived in New England, where they were three percent of the population; 34,679 lived in the mid-Atlantic colonies, where they were six percent of the population; and ...
