2010 Event The theory that Egypt's pyramids were built by free workers, not slaves, is reinforced by the discovery of new tombs near the great pyramids 1892 Birthday Karel L Baars, Dutch actor, White Slaves Trade 1865 Event Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas 1865 Event U.S. Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service 1863 Event Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves 1863 Event Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves 1863 Event Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves 1862 Event Amnesty proclaimed for escaped slaves of Suriname 1862 Event President Lincoln, says he will free slaves in all states on Jan 1 1862 Event Secretary of War authorizes General Rufus Saxton to arm 5,000 slaves 1862 Death Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in New York City for stealing 1,000 slaves 1861 Event Secretary of U.S. Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves 1861 Event Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war" 1861 Event 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia 1861 Event Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers 1860 Death Martinus J Niewindt, bishop on Curaeao (christened slaves), dies at 63 1859 Event Dutch colony in Dutch Indies counts 4,800 slaves 1857 Event Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens 1854 Event John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels 1853 Event Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape 1848 Event Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) 1848 Event Free last slaves in French colonies 1838 Event Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas 1833 Event Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed 1833 Event Curaeao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people and 5,894 slaves 1832 Event Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname 1831 Event Nat Turner leads uprising of slaves in Virginia 1830 Event Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves 1824 Event Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia 1816 Event U.S. troops destroy Ft. Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves 1814 Event Treaty of London-Netherland stops transporting slaves 1811 Event Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes 1808 Event Congress prohibits importation of slaves 1798 Event 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land and slaves 1796 Birthday Martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Curacao, christen slaves 1795 Event Curacao slaves opponents returns to St. Christopher 1795 Event Curacao governor De Veer sends miltia to stop rebellious slaves 1794 Event Congress bans U.S. vessels from supplying slaves to other countries 1793 Event Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed 1793 Event 1st U.S. fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves 1789 Event Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname 1788 Event Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves 1788 Event Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves 1783 Event Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states 1778 Event Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves 1775 Event Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army 1775 Event Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army 1774 Event Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves 1773 Event Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom 1716 Event 1st slaves arrive in Louisiana 1704 Event Elias Neau forms school for slaves in New York 1654 Death Peter Claver, Spanish saint (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies 1619 Event 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia 885 Death Methodius, Greek apostle of the slaves/archbishop of Sirmium, dies 869 Death Cyrillus, Greek apostle of Slaves, dies 626 Event Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople
