early days & slavery timeline by: tameka woodard
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1739 Lucy Terry, a slave, composes "Bars Fight," the first known poem by an African American. A description of an Indian raid on Terry's hometown in Massachusetts, the poem will be passed down orally and published in 1855.TRANSCRIPT
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Early Days & Slavery Timeline
By: Tameka Woodard
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1942
• A black navigator, Pedro Alonso Niño, travels with Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the New World
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1739
• Lucy Terry, a slave, composes "Bars Fight," the first known poem by an African American. A description of an Indian raid on Terry's hometown in Massachusetts, the poem will be passed down orally and published in 1855.
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1770
• Attucks, an escaped slave, becomes the first Colonial soldier to die for American independence when he is killed by the British in the Boston Massacre.
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1776
• A passage condemning the slave trade is removed from the Declaration of Independence due to pressure from the southern colonies
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1791
• Benjamin Banneker publishes the first almanac by an blackAfrican-AmericanAfrican American and is appointed by President George Washington to help survey Washington, D.C.
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1793
• Congress passes the first Fugitive Slave Act, which makes it a crime to harbor an escaped slave.
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1827
• The first African American newspaper in the U.S., Freedom's Journal, is published in New York by John Brown Russwurm and Samuel Cornish
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1831
• Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion in Virginia. Fifty-seven whites are killed, but Turner is eventually captured and executed
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1849
• Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery. She returns to the South and becomes one of the main "conductors" on the Underground Railroad, helping more than 300 slaves to escape.
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1863
• President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation legally frees all slaves in the Confederacy
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• All these dates are the dates that helped change history for us today. It did not take place right away but eventually it did.