Events

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Slavery/Abolition 04/30/1860 U.S. Navy delivers captured American slave ship with 507 African slaves aboard to Key West, Florida
Slavery/Abolition 04/05/1860 Book-burning takes place in South Carolina during trial of man for circulating anti-slavery literature
Slavery/Abolition 04/10/1860 In Virginia, Richmond police raid secret meeting of African-American group called "The Sons of Ham"
Slavery/Abolition 04/27/1860 Multi-racial crowd in Troy, New York rescue arrested fugitive slave
Slavery/Abolition 05/01/1860—05/02/1860 In Charleston, South Carolina, sympathizers briefly rescue indicted slave ship officer from jail
Slavery/Abolition 05/06/1860—05/07/1860 Two South Carolina slaves stow away aboard Boston bound steamer; one escapes, one does not
Slavery/Abolition 05/09/1860 U.S. Navy captures Baltimore owned slave ship off Cuban coast with five hundred slaves aboard
Slavery/Abolition 05/23/1860 U.S. Navy captures unregistered slave ship off the north coast of Cuba
Slavery/Abolition 05/16/1860 In Buffalo, NY, the Methodist Annual Conference hears from its Committee on Slavery
Slavery/Abolition 05/29/1860 In Buffalo, NY, Methodist Annual Conference declines to make slave holding a crime of the church
Slavery/Abolition 05/19/1860 President Buchanan asks Congress for funding to transport rescued African slaves to Liberia
Slavery/Abolition 05/24/1860 U.S. Government contracts with American Colonization Society to transport rescued African slaves to Liberia
Slavery/Abolition 06/01/1860 Maryland's law banning all manumission of slaves comes into effect
Slavery/Abolition 07/08/1860 In Alabama, the last Africa slaves transported and sold on United States soil landed on the Mobile River
Slavery/Abolition 07/11/1860 In a fiery speech, Senator Sumner predicts slavery will one day die as "a poisoned rat dies in its hole"
Slavery/Abolition 07/18/1860 Breckinridge supporter John Brown Gordon tells college students slavery is "the hand-maid of civil liberty"
Slavery/Abolition 07/15/1860 First American Colonization Society charter ship transporting rescued Africans to Liberia sails from Key West, Florida
Slavery/Abolition 07/23/1860 U.S. Navy captures New Orleans owned slave ship off the coast of Cuba
Slavery/Abolition 07/26/1860 The Republic of Liberia celebrates the thirteenth anniversary of its independence
Slavery/Abolition 12/21/1848 Daniel Gott of New York introduces his resolution to ban slavery in the District of Columbia