Women and African American History: 1800-1829
1800
1801
1802
• Ohio Constitution adopted, outlawing slavery and prohibiting free blacks from voting
• James Callendar accused Thomas Jefferson of keeping "as his concubine, one of his own slaves" -- Sally Hemings. The accusation was first published in the Richmond Recorder.
• (February 11) Lydia Maria Child born (abolitionist, writer)
1803
• (September 3) Prudence Crandall born (educator)
1804
• (January 5) Ohio passed "black laws" restricting rights of free blacks
1805
• Angelina Emily Grimke Weld born (abolitionist, women's rights proponent, sister of Sarah Moore Grimke)
1806
• (July 25) Maria Weston Chapman born (abolitionist)
1807
1808
• (January 1) importing slaves to the United States became illegal; about 250,000 more Africans were imported as slaves to the United States after slave imports became illegal
1809
• New York began recognizing marriages of African Americans
• African Female Benevolent Society of Newport, Rhode Island, founded
• Fanny Kemble born (wrote about slavery)
1810
1811
• (June 14) Harriet Beecher Stowe born (writer, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1812
1813
1814
1815
• (November 12) Elizabeth Cady Stanton born (antislavery and women's rights activist)
1816
1817
1818
• Lucy Stone born (editor, abolitionist, women's rights advocate)
1819
1820
• (about 1820) Harriet Tubman born a slave in Maryland (Underground Railroad conductor, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, soldier, spy, lecturer)
• (February 15) Susan B. Anthony born (reformer, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, lecturer)
1821
1822
1823
• (October 9) Mary Ann Shadd Cary born (journalist, teacher, abolitionist, activist)
1824
1825
• Frances Wright purchased land near Memphis and founded Nashoba plantation, buying slaves who would work to buy their freedom, become educated, and then when free move outside the United States
• (September 24) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper born in Maryland to free black parents (writer, abolitionist)
1826
• Sarah Parker Remond born (anti-slavery lecturer whose British lectures probably helped keep the British from entering the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy)
1827
1828
1829
• (1829-1830) when Frances Wright's Nashoba plantation project failed, amid scandal, Wright took the remaining slaves to freedom in Haiti
• race riots in Cincinnati resulted in more than half the African Americans in the city being forced out of town
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