Instructions: Click each section on the time line to view information about significant historical events related to slavery. With each interaction, the time line data will become fully populated.
Click the Forward arrow to continue.1492: Native Americans were pressed into slavery.
1492
1502: The first African slaves arrive in the New World.
1502
1662: Tobacco increased the demand for slavery.
1662
1708: Virginia had approximately 12,000 slaves.
1708
1793: Eli Whitney created the cotton gin.
1793
1794: Jean Etienne Bore revolutionized sugar extraction.
1794
1800–1860: By 1860, there were an estimated 4 million slaves in America.
1800–1860
1861: The U.S. Civil War erupted.
1860–1861
1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Emancipation Proclamation.
1863
1865: The 13th amendment abolished slavery within the United States.
1865
