Missouris Black Legacy

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Missouris Black Legacy

• From Admission
• Through the Abolitionist Movement
• The Civil War
• And Reconstruction

A PowerPoint Timeline Produced by the Elijah
Parrish Lovejoy Society
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1820 -- Missouri Joins Union

• Did you know that Missouri was first admitted to
  the Union as a free state?
• Missouri Senate eliminates anti-slavery provision
  in MO Constitution
• 90 Counties vote Yes
• 87 Counties vote No
• 9 Counties do not vote

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1619 Arrival at Jamestown
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17th 18th Centuries -- The Middle Passage
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Land Beyond the Sabbath
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1821 Missouri a Slave State
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The Abolitionists

• John Russworm (Freedoms Journal)
• David Walker (The Appeal)
• William Lloyd Garrison (The Liberator)
• Elijah P. Lovejoy (Observer)

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1827

• John Russworm publishes first black newspaper
• Freedoms Journal

John Russworm
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1829

• David Walker publishes an American pamphlet
  against slavery
• The Appeal

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1831

• William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing an
  abolitionist periodical
• The Liberator

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1831

• Charismatic slave leader Nat Turner heads bloody
  revolt in Virginia
• 55 whites die
• Inspires a man named John Brown

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1832- 1833

• New England Anti-Slavery Society founded in 1832
• Garrison organizes American Anti-Slavery Society
  in 1833

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