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1820 -- Missouri Compromise. Establishes the principle of equal representation for Northern and Southern states in the U.S. Senate. Maine enters the Union as a free state, Missouri as a slave state. Slavery is prohibited north of 36"30' N, the southern boundary of Missouri.
1822 -- Denmark's Vesey Plot. Born in Africa, Vesey had purchased his freedom in 1800 and worked as a carpenter in Charleston, South Carolina. Incensed by the injustice of slavery, Vesey plots a revolt, but his plan is discovered and 47 conspirators, including Vesey, are executed.
1827 -- Last slave freed in New York, on the 4th of July
1831 -- Nat Turner Revolt. The South's bloodiest slave insurrection occurs in Southampton County, Virginia, with the death of 60 whites and scores of blacks. As a result, Southern states impose harsher restrictions on blacks.
1831 -- First Publication of The Liberator. In Boston, William Lloyd Garrison states in the first printing of his abolitionist newspaper, "I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- and I will be heard." |