Abolitionism / Feminism / Antebellum America / Civil War - some dates

1793: First Fugitive Slave Law

1794: Founding of American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race in Philadelphia

1820 - The Missouri Compromise

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner/videos/what-was-the-missouri-compromise

 1821 - Founding of the periodical Genius of Universal Emancipation, ed. by Benjamin Lundi, and with the participation of William Lloyd Garrison

 1830 . First National Negro Convention

 1831 - William Lloyd Garrison starts The Liberator
            


(Sally Mann, "Southern Landscape", 1996


           Nat Turner's Rebellion


http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner/videos/nat-turners-rebellion

 1833 - American Anti-Slavery Society (by William Lloyd Garrison)

            An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

 1835 - emergence of Female Anti-Slavery Soceities (Lucretia Mott, Grace B. Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, etc.)

 1837: Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women

 1844 - American Anti-Slavery Society Splits because of dissention over having women menbers

 1845 - Narrative of the Life of American Douglass

1848 - Seneca Falls Convention and The Declaration of Sentiments, by Elizabeth Cady Staton


 1850: Compromise of 1850, and Reinforcement of Fugitive Slave Act

 1856: First Convention of the Republican Pary (opposing Slavey)

 1859: John Brown

 1860: Lincoln and Secession of Southern states 

 1863: Emancipation Proclamation

 1870: 15th Amerndment (granting riths to vote to African American males)

 1918: 19th Amendment - Women's Rigt to Vote

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