1808 |
- External slave trade outlawed.
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1810s–1850s |
- Suffrage extended throughout South to all adult white males.
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1820s–1830s |
- Southern legislatures enact slave codes.
- Southern legislatures restrict free blacks.
- Southern intellectuals fashion systematic defense of slavery.
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1822 |
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1829 |
- Appeal . . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World published.
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1830 |
- Southern slaves number approximately two million.
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1831 |
- Nat Turner’s rebellion.
- First issue of the Liberator published.
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1836 |
- Arkansas admitted to Union as slave state.
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1840 |
- Cotton accounts for more than 60 percent of nation’s exports.
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1845 |
- Texas and Florida admitted to Union as slave states.
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1860 |
- Southern slaves number nearly four million, one-third of South’s population.
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