Resources about Slavery and Religion For Students, Teachers, and Kids

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The history of slavery and religion in America are closely related. The slave trade itself started as early as the 15th century, though it took nearly 200 years for slaves to reach America and become the repressed people we learn about today in school. Some of the important events in the history of these topics follows.

Timeline of the history of slavery

1440 : The first African people are captured by the Portuguese.
1502 : Some European settlers bring slaves into the Americas.
1619 : English colonists settling in Virginia bring their own slaves.
1626 : African indentured servants are brought to New Amsterdam by the Dutch.
1638 : Boston is home to the New England Slave Trade.
1641 : The baptism of a slave is documented.
1680 : The conversion of slaves to Christianity is deemed necessary.
1688 : The Quakers begin speaking out against slavery.
1730 : New Orleans nuns attempt to convert African slaves to Catholicism.
1734 : The Great Awakening causes some Africans to begin practicing Baptism and Methodism.
1750 : The first African preachers begin preaching.
1758 : An all African Baptist congregation begins meeting in Virginia.
1773 : The Silver Bluff Baptist Church becomes the first all black church.
1775 : The Quakers start the Abolition Society.
1777 : Vermont forbids slavery.
1778 : Virginia disallows slave trade from outside North America.
1783 : Massachusetts abolishes slavery.
1784 : Two former slaves earn preacher’s licenses.
1784 : The Methodist Church bans slave holding.
1786 : A study finds that over 10% of practicing Methodists are African.
1786 : Free African Society begins in Philadelphia as a worship place for freed slaves.
1787 : A former slave starts the Baptist Church is Jamaica.
1788 : A former slave begins serving as a Baptist minister.
1800 : Virginia prohibits slaves from practicing religion during certain hours.
1801 : The first black missionary begins working in the South.
1807 : The first Methodist Church for blacks, the African Union Church appears.
1812 : A freed slave brings Baptism to Louisiana.
1814 : Black Methodist Church starts in Philadelphia.
1821 : Former slaves start the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
1822 : First rise up of slaves in South Carolina recorded.
1827 : All black newspaper starts.
1830 : Christians send missionaries to plantations to help slaves.
1831 : Baptist slaves revolt in Virginia.
1857 : Supreme Court states that slaves aren’t citizens.
1860 : Abraham Lincoln elected.
1861 : The Civil War starts.
1863 : Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves.
1865 : Congress outlaws slavery.
1866 : The African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church of America begins.

Resources about slavery and religion in America

Black Peoples of America : discusses slavery in America and their lives.

Slavery in America : looks at the slave trade and how it worked in the U.S.

Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade : focuses on the era when America stopped using the slave trade.

Slavery Images : contains images relating to slavery in America.

Slave Accounts : provides firsthand accounts from former slaves.

Slavery Timeline : dedicated to providing details on major events in slavery history.

Slavery Illustrated : antique book that detailed the lives of two former slaves.

Slave Trade and the Abolition of Slavery : discusses the end of slavery in America.

Slavery and the Making of America : focuses on how slavery helped form the country.

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