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1770
Phillis Wheatley, "Elegy for George Whitefield"

    

1773
Massachusetts slaves begin petitioning for freedom

   
   

1773
Phillis Wheatley, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"

    

1776
Samuel Hopkins, A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans

   
    
   

1829
David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

    

1831
Maria Stewart begins public speeches condemning slavery.

   
    
   

1833
Lydia Maria Child, "An Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans"

1833
John Greenleaf Whittier joins the abolitionist cause.

   
    
   

1834
Shoebinders of Lynn, Massachusetts form a society "for the protection and promotion of Female Industry"

1834
Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship"

   
    
   

1839
Amistad trial in New Haven

    

1841
Amistad case argued before the Supreme Court

   
    
   

1842
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery

1842
With the encouragement of his friend Charles Sumner, Longfellow publishes "Poems on Slavery

   
    
   

1845
Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative.

    

1850
Fugitive Slave Act

   
    
   

1851
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

    

1854
Anthony Burns arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act

   
    
   

1857
Dred Scott Decision

    

1859
Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing

   
    
   

1863
Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in rebellious states

    

1865
13th Amendment outlaws slavery

   

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