| 1790s-1830s |
Institution-Building by Middle-Class Free Blacks in North |
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| 1790s |
growth of schools, churches, charities |
| 1820s |
growth of print culture and reform organizations |
| 1827 |
“reedom’s Journal” (first black-owned newspaper, in New York City) |
| 1830 |
David Walker, Appeal To the Coloured Citizens of the World |
| 1830 |
American Society of Free Persons of Color (first black men’s anti-colonization society, in Philadelphia) |
| 1832 |
Salem, Mass. Female Anti-Slavery Society (first black women’s abolitionist society, in Salem, Massachusetts) |
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| 1790s-1830s |
Revisions of “Black” Identity |
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| 1790s |
free black organizations used “African” in their names |
| 1820s |
white colonization movement — send free blacks “back” to Africa |
| 1830s |
free black organizations used “Colored” in their names |
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| 1787-1863 |
History of End of Slavery |
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| 1787 |
English colonizationists created Sierre Leone for freed slaves |
| 1804 |
Haitian independence against France (first black republic in “New World”) |
| 1807 |
England abolished slave trade |
| 1808 |
United States abolished slave trade |
| 1820s |
former Spanish independent republics abolished slavery: Chile (1823), Mexico (1826), Bolivia (1827) |
| 1822 |
American colonizationists created Liberia for freed slaves |
| 1833 |
American Anti-Slavery Society founded (beginning of nationally organized white abolitionism) |
| 1833 |
England abolished slavery |
| 1850s |
more former Spanish republics abolished slavery: Colombia (1851), Argentina (1853), Venezuela (1854), Peru (1855) |
| 1863 |
United States abolished slavery |
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Photographic Record of Plantation South |
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plantation and slave quarters, Berkeley County SC |
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slave quarters, Chatham County GA |
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“big house,” Baltimore County MD |