Political Tensions Mount Around the Issue of Slavery
1. 1831
-------- Britain abolishes slavery Nat Turner leads slave uprising in Virginia; Virginia’s Assembly establishes special committee on slavery Solomon Northrup kidnapped and sold into slavery David Wilmot proposes Wilmot Proviso Solomon Northrup publishes Twelve Years a Slave James Hammond leads campaign that results in congressional gag rule tabling all antislavery petitions
2. 1834
-------- Britain abolishes slavery Nat Turner leads slave uprising in Virginia; Virginia’s Assembly establishes special committee on slavery Solomon Northrup kidnapped and sold into slavery David Wilmot proposes Wilmot Proviso Solomon Northrup publishes Twelve Years a Slave James Hammond leads campaign that results in congressional gag rule tabling all antislavery petitions
3. 1836
-------- Britain abolishes slavery Nat Turner leads slave uprising in Virginia; Virginia’s Assembly establishes special committee on slavery Solomon Northrup kidnapped and sold into slavery David Wilmot proposes Wilmot Proviso Solomon Northrup publishes Twelve Years a Slave James Hammond leads campaign that results in congressional gag rule tabling all antislavery petitions
4. 1841
-------- Britain abolishes slavery Nat Turner leads slave uprising in Virginia; Virginia’s Assembly establishes special committee on slavery Solomon Northrup kidnapped and sold into slavery David Wilmot proposes Wilmot Proviso Solomon Northrup publishes Twelve Years a Slave James Hammond leads campaign that results in congressional gag rule tabling all antislavery petitions
5. August 1846
-------- Britain abolishes slavery Nat Turner leads slave uprising in Virginia; Virginia’s Assembly establishes special committee on slavery Solomon Northrup kidnapped and sold into slavery David Wilmot proposes Wilmot Proviso Solomon Northrup publishes Twelve Years a Slave James Hammond leads campaign that results in congressional gag rule tabling all antislavery petitions
6. 1853
-------- Britain abolishes slavery Nat Turner leads slave uprising in Virginia; Virginia’s Assembly establishes special committee on slavery Solomon Northrup kidnapped and sold into slavery David Wilmot proposes Wilmot Proviso Solomon Northrup publishes Twelve Years a Slave James Hammond leads campaign that results in congressional gag rule tabling all antislavery petitions