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• 1619 ~ Jamestown, SC
  First 20-Africans kidnapped and forced into indentureship.
• 1712 ~ Slaves plot to burn down New York City
• 1793 ~ Cotton Gin
  Cotton Gin is invented causing enslaved population to increase from .25 million to 3.75 million by 1860.
• Detroit ~ March 27, 1859
  John Brown tries to enlist the support of Frederick Douglass and black leaders for a raid on Harper’s Ferry.
• December 1859
  John Brown is captured, convicted and hanged.
• December 1859 ~ Frederick Douglass flees to Europe.
• 1860 ~ South Carolina threatens to secede from the Union if Lincoln is elected president.
• November 6, 1860 ~ Lincoln is elected President and rejects the inclusion of territories in the United States.
• December 20, 1860 ~ Within six weeks, six other states in the South (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana followed later by Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina) followed South Carolina’s lead and seceded.
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• Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as the 16th President of the United States.