Underground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom with 21 Activities

Underground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom with 21 Activities — page 3
Time Line Jamestown Virginia settled by English colonists 1607 Twenty captured Africans become indentured ser 1619 vants in Jamestown 1640 1710 Slavery becomes a legal institution in British North American colonies Africans and their children become lifelong slaves Declaration of Independence proclaims All men are created equal 1776 1777 1804 Vermont Pennsylvania Massachusetts New Hamp shire Connecticut Rhode Island New York and New Jersey ban or phase out slavery United States of America wins its independence but 1783 slavery remains legal Northwest Ordinance bans slavery in territories that will become Ohio Indiana 1787 Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin