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"Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage" Christopher Columbus
1493
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African Slaves Introduced in the Americas
1501
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"Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage" CC
1503
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Slaves Introduced to South Carolina
1526
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Jamestown, VA Founded
1607
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Indentured Servants from Africa Arrive at Jamestown
1619
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Law in VA Changes- lawful for Africans to be enslaved entire lives
1661
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Law in VA Changes- children follow the condition of the mother
1662
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Maryland follows VA law- African slavery lawful
1664
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"A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson"
1682
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"The Way to Wealth" Benjamin Franklin
1758
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"On Being Brought from Africa to America" Phillis Wheatley
1773
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Declaration of Independance was signed
1776
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"To His Excellency General Washington" Phillis Wheatley
1776
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"Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" Benjamin Franklin
1784
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"Notes on the State of Virginia" Thomas Jefferson
1785
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Louisiana Purchase
1803
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Missouri Compromise
1820
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Sequoyah invents syllabary in which Cherokee language can be written
1821
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Cherokee Phoenix first published
1828
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"Cherokee Phoenix to the Public" Elias Boudinot
1828
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"Appeal in Four Articles" David Walker
1829
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"Cherokee Memorials" Cherokee Council
1829
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Indian Removal Act
1830
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Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
1831
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William Lloyd Garrison publishes the Liberator, antislavery journal
1831
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"An Indian's Looking Glass for the White Man" William Apess
1833
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"The May-Pole of Merrimount" Nathaniel Hawthorne
1835
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Treaty of New Echota in which Cherokee nation cedes territory
1835
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Indian Removal, Trail of Tears
1838 - 1839
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"Letter to Martin Van Buren" Ralph Waldo Emerson
1838
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" Edgar Allan Poe
1839
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"Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson
1841
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"The Great Lawsuit" Margaret Fuller
1843
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"Philosophy of Composition" Edgar Allan Poe
1846
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Seneca Falls Convention
1848
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Fugitive Slave Act obliges free states to return escaped slaves
1850
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"What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglass
1852
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"Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent" Martin Delany
1854
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"Preface to Leaves of Grass" Walt Whitman
1855
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Dred Scott decision denies citizenship to African Americans
1857
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"Bury Me in a Free Land" Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
1858
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Civil War
1861 - 1865
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"Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl" Harriet Jacobs
1861
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"Life in the Iron Mills" Rebecca Harding Davis
1861
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"320" Emily Dickinson
1862
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First Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869
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