*On this date in 1859, "the weeping time" of slavery occurred in African American heritage. This was the largest sale of human beings in the...
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Thu, 1859-03-03
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Sun, 1859-10-16
On this date in 1859, abolitionist John Brown, who was white, and a group of his followers raided the Harpers Ferry Virginia arsenal.
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Fri, 1859-12-16
On this date in 1859, two of the five Black abolitionist in the raid on Harpers Ferry, Shields Green and John Anthony Copeland, were hanged. The...
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Fri, 1861-04-12
On this date in 1861, the Civil War began. This war is also referred to as "The War Between the States", "The War of Rebellion", or "The War for...
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Fri, 1861-05-31
The American Civil War, waged from 1861 to 1865, is remembered on this date.
Before and during the Civil War, the North and South...
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Sat, 1861-06-01
The first encounter of the Civil War happened on this date in 1861 at the Fairfax Court House in Arlington Mills, Virginia.
The result...
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Fri, 1861-08-30
On this date in 1854, John C. Fremont, issued a proclamation freeing the slaves of Missouri rebels. Lincoln revoked his proclamation.
A...
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Wed, 1861-09-25
On this date in 1861, The Union Navy admitted Blacks for military service for the first time, almost a year before the army opened its ranks....
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Tue, 1861-11-26
On this date in 1861, West Virginia began the Secessionist Convention that would result in its breaking away from the Confederate state of...
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Fri, 1862-02-21
*On this date in 1862, Nathaniel Gordon was hanged for slave trading. He is the only person in American history executed for slave-trading....
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Wed, 1862-04-16
On this date in 1862, the nations capitol ended slavery. President Lincoln signed an act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia, an...
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Mon, 1862-05-12
On this date in 1862, Black slaves commandeered the Confederate ship “the Planter.”
It had just gotten dark on that evening in 1862, and...
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Tue, 1862-05-20
On this date in 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act.
This legislation gave authorized unrestricted settlement on public lands to...
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Wed, 1862-12-31
*On This date in 1862 the first Watch Night Services were celebrated in black communities in...
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Tue, 1863-03-10
*This date celebrates the creation of the all-Black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry in 1863.
Robert Gould Shaw, twenty-six year old...
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Fri, 1863-04-17
On this date in 1863, a black woman was forcibly removed from a horse-drawn streetcar in San Francisco.
Charlotte L. Brown, the daughter...
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Sun, 1863-05-17
*On this date in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation; ordering that all slaves in rebel territory be freed....
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Mon, 1863-07-13
On this date in 1863, the New York Draft Riots occurred. This has been described as Four Days Of Terror centered on racism over the Civil War...
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Sat, 1863-07-18
On this date in 1863, the first African American received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Sergeant William H. Carney was the recipient...
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Mon, 1863-07-20
On this date, the African American Registry discusses miscegantion.
Shortly before Christmas in 1863 a 72-page pamphlet appeared for sale...
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