Text Box: 1609 Henry Hudson sails up a river in a ship called the Halve Maen believing it to be the Northwest Passage. The river is later called “The Hudson River”. Text Box: 1614 The Dutch trading Post of New Netherlands is established. Text Box: 1624 Africans are imported as slaves to the Hudson Valley. Text Box: 1638 The first shipment of Native American slaves are sent to the West Indies, where they are traded for African slaves and goods. Text Box: 1664 The English take over New Netherlands and divide it into two colonies: New York and New Jersey. Text Box: 1712 Slave revolt in NYC involving 23 slaves. Twenty-one are executed. Text Box: 1776 The Declaration of Independence is signed. A section denouncing slavery was omitted. Text Box: 1785 New York passes a law prohibiting the importation of slaves for sale. The New York manumission Society is organized. Text Box: 1787 Continental Congress excludes slavery form the northwest Territory. Text Box: 1706 An Act to Encourage the baptizing of all Negroes, Indians and Mulattos. passed. Text Box: 1696 A law passed preventing more than three Negroes assembling. Text Box: 1799 Gradual Manumission Law is passed. Text Box: 1745 An Act passed to prevent the running away of slaves out of the city and county of Albany to the French in Canada. Punishment is execution. Text Box: 1797 Isabel , a slave to Johannes Hardenburgh. is born in Hurley, Ulster County. She later takes the name Sojourner Truth. Text Box: 1807 Congress bans the slave trade. Text Box: 1817 An Act relative to Slaves and Servants passed. Solidified the practices of gradual manumission. Text Box: 1820 The Missouri Compromise enacted prohibiting slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri. Text Box: 1773 An Act to Prevent Aged and Decrepit Slaves from Becoming Burdensome is passed. Text Box: 1827 Slavery is officially abolished in New York. John Wynkoop is born in New Paltz. Text Box: 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act passed “The law stated that in the future any federal marshal who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave could be fined $1,000. People suspected of being a runaway slave could be arrested without warrant and turned over to a claimant on nothing more than his sworn testimony of ownership. A suspected black slave could not ask for a jury trial nor testify on his or her behalf. Any person aiding a runaway slave by providing shelter, food or any other form of assistance was liable to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine. Those officers capturing a fugitive slave were entitled to a fee and this encouraged some officers to kidnap free Negroes and sell them to slave-owners.” (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASfugitive.htm) To view the law in it’s entirety, see http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/fugitive.htm Text Box: 1863 Emancipation Proclamation passed. Text Box: 1865 The Thirteenth Amendment is passed abolishing all slavery in the United States. Text Box: 1867 Fourteenth Amendment - Bill of Rights is extended to include all people. Text Box: 1870 Fifteenth Amendment is passed giving all men the right to vote (women will wait until 1920). Text Box: 1875 Civil Rights Bill is passed extending the rights of people of color to equal treatment. Text Box: 1794 An Act to Prohibit the Carrying on the Slave Trade from the U.S. to any foreign Place or country. To see the Law in it’s entirety, see http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/slavery/sl001.htm Text Box: 1808 Inventory of Charles Hardenburgh listing Isabella (Sojourner Truth).

Judy (Jackson) is born.