1619- Captive Africans were sold into slavery in Jamestown, Virginia
1793- Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
1831- Nat Turner leads a rebellion in South Hamilton, Virginia where enslaved Africans revolted and killed a plantation owner as well as 57 other whites.
1847- Frederick Douglass escaped to the North and produced a an abolitionist newspaper and named it "North Star".
1849- Harriet Tubman escapes from a Virginia plantation and knew the trails of the Underground Railroad
1850- Fugitive Slave Act: Any black caught leaving a plantation was to be brought back to slavery.
1860- Abraham Lincoln was elected to be president
1870-15th Amendment is ratified. Now black men are have the right to vote
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