United States Constitution: Amendment 13. Abolishing Slavery

1. 1619. First African slaves arrive in North America.
2. 1773. Slave Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral published in London to great success.
3. 1791. In Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance, Continental Congress bans slavery in the Northwest Territory.
4. 1807. Congress ends the importation of slaves.

• 1811. Louisiana Slave Revolt.
• 1831. Earliest mention of the Underground Railroad.
• 1831. Nat Turner's Rebellion.
• 1841. United States v. Schooner Amistad: The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the release of African captives aboard the Spanish schooner La Amistad.
• 1852. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 1852. Frederick Douglass' 4th of July speech.

• 1853.12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup
• 1858. The LIncoln-Douglas Debates
• 1859. John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
• 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation.

• Juneteenth, 1865. The end of slavery in the United States.
• 1865. The 13th Amendment abolishes slavery in the United States.
• 1866. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 invalidates the Black Codes in the former Confederate States.

• Abolitionist: Person who supported the movement to end the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.
• Branded: Marked permanently with a hot iron as identifiable property; traditionally used on cattle and livestock as well as on some enslaved people to denote ownership.
• Chattel slavery: A form of slavery, introduced by Europeans, in which the enslaved person is treated as a piece of property belonging to his or her owner and has no rights; this status is for life and their children automatically have the same status; chattel derives from the word for cattle.
• Coffle: A group of animals and prisoners or enslaved people chained together in a line commonly used by slavers in the 18th century.
• Concubinage: A woman and man living together without being husband and wife.
• Diaspora: The spreading out of any group of people, forcibly or voluntarily, away from their homeland across a large area or indeed the world. (As in the Jewish diaspora or the African diaspora.)
• Domestic slave: An enslaved person who works in a household rather than in the fields.
• Emancipation: The freeing of enslaved people from slavery.
• Enslaved African/Enslaved Person: A servant devoid of freedom and personal rights, one who is the property of another whether by capture, purchase or birth.
• Indenture: A form of contracted servitude or apprenticeship for a fixed period of time, often seven years in return for free passage to a colony, with the promise of land or money at the end.
• Manumission: Legal process by which enslaved Africans could buy their freedom or be freed by their owner.
• Maafa: The enslavement of African people by Europeans. 
• Middle Passage: The second stage in the transatlantic slave trade. (See triangular trade.)
• Overseer: Person on a plantation paid a wage to organize the work of the enslaved people.
• Privilege slave: An enslaved African given to a ship's officer by the slave ship owner as a special honour, or privilege.
• Seasoning: A period during which enslaved people newly arrived from Africa were initiated into the labour regime.
• Shackles: Metal hoops and chains put round the necks, wrists and ankles of (usually male) enslaved people to restrain them.
• Slave colony: A settlement on plantations, based on the labour of enslaved Africans.
• Slavers: People who earn a living from capturing, trading and transporting enslaved people; ships engaged in transporting the enslaved.
• Trading forts: Trading bases along the West African coast; they temporarily housed enslaved Africans until they were loaded onto ships.
• Trafficking: The transport and trade in humans for economic gain using force or deception.
• Triangular trade: The name often given to the transatlantic slave trade, consisting of the Outward Passage, the Middle Passage and the Return or Homeward Passage.
• Underground Railroad: A means of escape for thousands of enslaved people from the southern United States to the north and Canada operating from the late 1700s to 1862.
• Whitney's cotton gin: An engine that separated the seeds from the cotton plant, and greatly increased cotton cultivation and the demand for enslaved people in the US.
• Yoke: A wooden bar used to link two things, people or animals together, or to carry a burden.

Source: USI: Understanding Slavery Initiative.

SLAVERY

• Library of Congress: Pre-Civil War African-American Slavery
• National Geographic Resource Library: Slavery
• National Museum of African-American History and Culture
• Slave Voyages: "Explore the dispersal of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic World."

JIM CROW 

• American Public Media: Remembering Jim Crow
• Equal Justice Initiative
• Google Arts & Culture: Jim Crow and Racial Segregation
• Library of Congress: Jim Crow and Segregation
• The National Memorial for Peace and Justice & The Legacy Museum
• National Museum of American History

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
African-American intellectual and leader
Public Domain

Jim Crow laws: Legislation in many American states from 1880s-1960s which enforced segregation between black and whites and outlawed mixed race marriages. --Understanding Slavery Initiative.

• 1877. The Compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction in the South.
• 1879. The Exoduster Migration from the South to Kansas and other States.
• 1892. Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.

• 1905. The Du Bois' Niagara Movement is founded.
• 1909. NAACP founded.

• 1910s-1930s. Harlem Renaissance.
• 1936. The Green Book is first published.
• 1939. Billie Holiday records Strange Fruit.
• 1947. Jackie Robinson breaks the color line in baseball.
• 1948. President Truman ends segregation in the military.
• 1952. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is published.
• 1955. Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat.