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African American Slavery Timeline
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History of Black Slavery and Abolition
1619 – First Africans arrive in Jamestown, Virginia as indentured servants.
1713 – England secures sole right to supply African slaves to Spanish colonies.
1789 – U. S. Constitution ratified, equates slaves to 3/5ths of a white citizen.
1798 – 1808 – Decade in which largest number of African slaves imported into U.S.
1807 – U. S. Congress outlaws import of African slaves; importation continues to 1860.
1819 – U. S. law equates slave trading with piracy.
1830 - Convention of the People of Color organizes to oppose slavery and discrimination in free states.
1843 – Sojourner Truth, escaped slave, lectures for abolition of slavery.
1857 – U. S. Supreme Court issues Dred Scott decision holding that African-Americans could not be U. S. citizens and have none of the rights of citizens.
1859 – Last slave ship arrives in Mobile, Alabama.
1862 – Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation September 22, 1862.
1863 – January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation takes effect.
1865 – 13th Amendment to U. S. Constitution abolishing slavery approved and ratified.
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