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A History of Slavery in the United States
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SUBJECTS
5 - 11
Social Studies, U.S. History
1847 — 1851
THE NORTH STAR
Frederick Douglass founds The North Star, a newspaper named after
directions given to runaway slaves trying to reach Canada: Follow the
North Star.
The motto of The North Star was “Right is of no Sex—Truth is of no
Color—God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.”
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Slavery in what became the United States probably
with
the
arrival
of "20
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odd" enslaved Africans to the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. It
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officially ended with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
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Use our timeline to navigate a history of slavery in the United States.
This timeline was made with the TimelineJS tool from the Knight Lab. This free
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