#Slavery
Events indexed under #Slavery — 25 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1860-12-20 | South Carolina Secession Launches Confederate States Formation to Preserve Slavery as Explicit Constitutional Foundation Jefferson Davis · Alexander Stephens · South Carolina · Confederate States of America · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1860-04-23 | Democratic Party Convention Split Over Slavery Platform Fractures Last National Institution Binding North and South Stephen A. Douglas · William Yancey · John C. Breckinridge · Democratic Party · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1842-03-01 | Prigg v Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Protects Slave Catchers and Enables Kidnapping U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Joseph Story · Justice John McLean · Edward Prigg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1839-07-02 | Amistad Captives Revolt and Win Freedom in Supreme Court, Exposing Slavery's Illegality Joseph Cinqué · Amistad captives · John Quincy Adams · Lewis Tappan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1831-08-21 | Nat Turner Rebellion Triggers Brutal Repression and Tightening of Slave Codes Across the South Nat Turner · Virginia Legislature · Southern state governments · Enslaved population · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1822-07-02 | Denmark Vesey Plans Massive Charleston Slave Rebellion, Exposing Institutional Terror Denmark Vesey · African Methodist Episcopal Church · Charleston authorities · Enslaved conspirators | confirmed | |
| 1808-01-01 | Domestic Slave Trade Explodes After Import Ban, Creating Second Middle Passage Slave traders · Upper South planters · Deep South cotton planters · Enslaved people | confirmed | |
| 1807-03-02 | Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves Signed After Constitutional 20-Year Protection Expires Thomas Jefferson · U.S. Congress · Joseph Bradley Varnum | confirmed | |
| 1800-12-03 | Thomas Jefferson Wins Presidency Through Three-Fifths Compromise Electoral Advantage Thomas Jefferson · John Adams · Virginia slaveholders · Electoral College | confirmed | |
| 1800-08-30 | Gabriel's Rebellion Plans Massive Slave Uprising in Virginia, Exposing System's Fragility Gabriel · James Monroe · Virginia militia · Enslaved conspirators | confirmed | |
| 1794-03-22 | Slave Trade Act of 1794 Prohibits American Ships from International Slave Trade U.S. Congress · George Washington · American ship owners | confirmed | |
| 1793-03-14 | Cotton Gin Patent Transforms Slavery from Declining Institution to Booming Economic Engine Eli Whitney · Southern planters · Enslaved people | confirmed | |
| 1793-02-12 | Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 Creates Federal Enforcement Apparatus for Slavery U.S. Congress · George Washington · Federal judges · Slaveholders · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1790-02-11 | Quaker Antislavery Petitions to First Congress Trigger Fierce Debate and Tabling Society of Friends (Quakers) · Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery · Benjamin Franklin · James Madison · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1787-09-17 | Constitution Entrenches Slavery Through Three-Fifths Compromise and Multiple Protections Constitutional Convention · James Wilson · Charles Pinckney · James Madison · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1787-09-06 | Electoral College Design Leverages Three-Fifths Compromise to Amplify Slave State Power Constitutional Convention delegates · James Madison · Southern state delegates · Committee of Eleven | confirmed | |
| 1787-08-29 | Constitutional Convention Adopts Fugitive Slave Clause Requiring Northern Complicity Pierce Butler · Charles Pinckney · James Madison · South Carolina delegates · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1787-08-25 | Constitutional Convention Guarantees 20-Year Protection for International Slave Trade Committee of Eleven · William Livingston · John Rutledge · Charles Pinckney · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1787-08-08 | Gouverneur Morris Condemns Slavery as Curse of Heaven at Constitutional Convention Gouverneur Morris · James Madison · Southern state delegates · Pennsylvania delegation | confirmed | |
| 1787-07-13 | Northwest Ordinance Prohibits Slavery While Mandating Fugitive Slave Returns Continental Congress · Nathan Dane · Southern state delegates · Slaveholders | confirmed | |
| 1787-07-12 | Three-Fifths Compromise Gives Slaveholders Massive Extra Political Power James Wilson · Charles Pinckney · Gouverneur Morris · James Madison · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1705-10-01 | Virginia Slave Code of 1705 Consolidates Comprehensive Racial Caste System Into Law Virginia House of Burgesses · Virginia Colony · Slaveholders | confirmed | |
| 1676-09-19 | Bacon's Rebellion Unites Poor Whites and Blacks, Triggering Elite Shift Toward Racial Slavery Nathaniel Bacon · William Berkeley · Virginia planters · Indentured servants · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1662-12-01 | Virginia Enacts Partus Sequitur Ventrem Making Slavery Hereditary Through Mothers Virginia House of Burgesses · Virginia Colony · Slaveholders | confirmed | |
| 1619-08-20 | First Enslaved Africans Arrive in Virginia, Beginning Atlantic Slave Trade in British North America Virginia Colony · Sir George Yeardley · Abraham Peirsey · White Lion privateers · +1 | confirmed |