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1441 Enslaved by the Portugese
http://www.saintlouisdusenegal.com/english/histesclavagisme.htm
A map of Raleigh's colony in Viriginia founded in 1585
http://tudorhistory.org/maps/
1606 The Virginia Company
http://www.historicjamestowne.org/history/
1619 Landing of Negroes at Jamestown from a Dutch Man-of-War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h289.html
The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbour
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~julieann/Mayflower_Stephen_Hopkins.htm
1620 English Pilgrams land at Plymouth Rock
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~julieann/Mayflower_Stephen_Hopkins.htm
The Jamestown Settlement
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h273.html
Massachusetts was the first colony to legalize slavery in 1641
http://www.historycentral.com/AfiricanAmerican/MassSlaves.html
1655 The First Slave Auction at New Amsterdam
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h290.html
1670 Slaves making tobacco in Virginia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Virginia
1704 Phillis Wheatley learned latin and greek and published poems in Boston
http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0214_Phillis_Wheatley.html
1747 "Yale, Slavery and Aboliton."
http://www.yaleslavery.org/Abolitionists/abolit.html
1768 Danish Slave Ship - 265 Enslaved Africans Onboard
http://www.unesco.no/fredensborg/bilder_365/JB_Slaveskipet_Lepson.jpg
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1769 For Sale
http://www.tradehouse.no/CITY/London/Slaveri/slaveri.htm
LaFayette's equary James Armestead was owned by a Virginia planter.
http://www.common-place.org/vol-01/no-04/slavery/bontemps.shtml
1783 Slavery was abolished in Massachusetts
http://www.masshist.org/longroad/01slavery/walker.htm
1785 Billy Blue a black slave in London, England
http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/slavery_in_london.html
The British slave ship "Brookes" from Liverpool
http://www.safepassageohio.org/resources/index.asp
1795 Europeans in Africa
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h306.html
1799 Capt. John Gabriel Stedman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:John_Gabriel_Stedman.png
1800 What Slaves Built
http://ns.headroyce.org/~kbradley/ushistory/linksunit3.html
Slave Houses, Mulberry Plantation, South Carolina, ca. 1800
http://www.richardscenter.psu.edu/image-gallery.htm
Cuba
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/details.php?filename=LCP-04
1806 Louisa Calderon's torture on the Isle of Trinidad
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/112.3/epstein.html
1815 Benjamin Lundy formed an anti-slavery society called "the Union Humane Society".
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~henryhowesbook/belmont.html
Senator Rufus King opposed slavery and the Missouri Compromise
http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/brush/index/portraits/king.htm
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1823 Sugar slavery in Latin America
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/slaves-sugar.htm
1823 Rebellion Hangings - Trinidad
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/return.php?categorynum=16&categoryName=Physical%20Punishment,%20Rebellion,%20Running%20Away
Rebellion painting
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/musees-la-rochelle/n-monde/a/collect8.htm
1831 The rebellion led by Nat Turner
http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/blphotos_slavery_natturnersrebellion.htm
Anti-slavery sentiment doomed the prospects for Texas annexation during the Van Buren administration. This document is the original draft of the withdrawal of the 1837 proposition for the annexation of Texas.
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/presidents/houston1/mrprez.html
A cotton plantation on the Mississippi River
http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/civwar/intro.html
1840 The whip
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/details.php?categorynum=7&categoryName=&theRecord=94&recordCount=96
Linda Brent was the pen name of Harriet A. Jacobs a slave born in 1813 and wrote this book
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/tg/detail/offer-listing/-/0156443503/all
The Compromise of 1850
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~sara/html/mapping/election/election04/more.html
1850 Henry Clay Introduces the Compromise of 1850
http://home.gwu.edu/~binder/
1851 Wendell Phillips speaks against the Fugitive Slave Act
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam006.html
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin
http://fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Education/Definitions/a_nation_divided/uncle_toms_cabin
1853 Reward
http://www.tradehouse.no/CITY/London/Slaveri/slaveri.htm
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The Rev. William Goodell
http://medicolegal.tripod.com/goodellsaas.htm
Senator Charles Sumner of Mass. opposed slavery
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_pos.html
Anti-slavery Senator William Pitt Fessenden of Maine became Lincoln's Treasury Secretary
http://www.answers.com/topic/hon-wm-pitt-fessenden-of-maine-png
1859 John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry
http://fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Education/Definitions/a_nation_divided/john_browns_raid_at_harpers_ferry
1860 510 Africans on Board the Wildfire
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1b.html
Hulling rice on Sapelo Island, Georgia
http://sherpaguides.com/georgia/barrier_islands/island_life/
1860 The slave ship Wildfire. Legal importation of slaves ended in 1808.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1b.html
CAPTURE OF SLAVES in Central Afrika
http://www.negroartist.com/Capture%20of%20Slaves/pages/Hermann%20Wagner,%20Schilderung%20der%20Reisen%20_%20_%20_Eduard%20Vogel%20in%20Central%20Afrika%20Leipzig,%201860,%20p_%20217_jpg.htm
1860 Seven slave states succeeded before the end of the Buchanan administration
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/Confederate_states_America.htm
Five generations of a family on a South Carolina plantation
http://www.olemiss.edu/courses/his105/
1862 at Cumberland Landing, Virginia
http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/photographs/slaves-working-cotton.htm
1862 On Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina
http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/photographs/slaves-working-cotton.htm
1863 Frederick Douglas supported Lincoln and helped recruit blacks to serve in the Union Army
http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/slavery/antebellum_slavery/non_plantation_slave_life/frederick_douglass.htm
1867 Harriet Tubman, hero of the Underground Railway, with family and friends
http://harriettubmanbiography.com/_wsn/page14.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse/panel9.html
1884 Slave Market in Rome by Jean-Léon Gérôme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothed_male,_naked_female
1888 The White Slave by Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:L%E2%80%99Esclave_blanche_(Nouy).jpg
Biblical scene with Joseph beging sold into slavery by his older brothers
http://www.hung-art.hu/english/f/ferenc_k/muvek/2/feren212.html
1918 Slavery in other forms
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/WF.CHAP7.HTM
Roundup for slave labor
http://www.aish.com/holocaust/overview/Nazi_Plans_for_the_Jews.asp
Slave labor in Poland
http://www.poloniatoday.com/kielce1.htm
Joseph Goebbels (seated) with his wife Magda, whose Jewish father died at the Buchenwald slave labor camp, and the six innocent children whom they killed before killing themselves, in Hitler's bunker.
http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/Catholic/HitlersFaith.html
Hungarian Jewish women are selected for slave labor in Birkenau, Summer 1944.
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394947
A Confederate slave named Jackson became a Union Drummer
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/galleries/portraits/photo3.html
2005 Slavery in Brazil
http://www.oshadavidson.com/Slavery.htm
2005 A book about slavery around the world
http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/Bookshop/detail.asp?item=100000000013919
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