- Gabriel Prosser (1800): Richmond slave rebellion...info leaked first
- American Colonization Society (1817): “Letʼs send the slaves back to Africa (Liberia)!”
- Denmkar Vassey (1822): SC / Vassey bought himself to be a free man -> slave rebellion, failed because info. leaking
- underground railroad (1830~) Harriet Tubman
- Garrison (1831): Liberator
- 1833: Slavery abolished in Britain
- 1836: Congress passed -> gag rule - no antislavery documents read in public
- the murder of Elijiah P. Lovejoy (abolitionist editorialist, Boston) 1837
- Frederick Douglass (1840s ~)
- Amistad v. United States (1841)
- Wilmot Priviso (1847)
- Free Soil Party (1848): no introduction of slavery into new territories
- National Fugitive Slavey Law (1850)
- Uncle Tomʼs Cabin (1852)
- Kansas-Nebraska (1854)
- Bleeding Kansas (1856) <- refer to Pierce Section
- Dred Scott (1857)
- John Brownʼs Raid (1859)
- Election of 1860 and Lincoln elected
- Fort Sumter (1861)
- American Colonization Society (1817): “Letʼs send the slaves back to Africa (Liberia)!”
- Denmkar Vassey (1822): SC / Vassey bought himself to be a free man -> slave rebellion, failed because info. leaking
- underground railroad (1830~) Harriet Tubman
- Garrison (1831): Liberator
- 1833: Slavery abolished in Britain
- 1836: Congress passed -> gag rule - no antislavery documents read in public
- the murder of Elijiah P. Lovejoy (abolitionist editorialist, Boston) 1837
- Frederick Douglass (1840s ~)
- Amistad v. United States (1841)
- Wilmot Priviso (1847)
- Free Soil Party (1848): no introduction of slavery into new territories
- National Fugitive Slavey Law (1850)
- Uncle Tomʼs Cabin (1852)
- Kansas-Nebraska (1854)
- Bleeding Kansas (1856) <- refer to Pierce Section
- Dred Scott (1857)
- John Brownʼs Raid (1859)
- Election of 1860 and Lincoln elected
- Fort Sumter (1861)