Inspired 1701-1800
Black History Timeline
1700- 1717
Osei Tutu unifies the Asante (Ashante) Empire of Akan peoples.
1704
February 28. Elias Neau, (a Frenchman), opened a school for African Americans in New York City.
1708
There are more African Americans in South Carolina than Europeans, (it is the first English colony with a black majority).
1712
April 7. In New York City, 21 slaves were executed.
1716-1756
There were a total of 3.5 million slaves in the American colonies.
1720
The rise of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
The Abomey plateau became the capital of Dahomey and the monarchy begins in the 17th century.
1721
Onesimus invents the small pox inoculation.
1731
November 9. Benjamin Banneker, (inventor and scientist) is born in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland.
1739
September 9. The Cato revolt was led by a slave named ‘Cato’. More than 25 whites were killed. As the slaves tried to escape to Florida, more than 30 were captured and executed.
March 1. The British are forced to sign a peace treaty with Maroons.
1743
May 20. Touissant L'Ouverture is born.
1752-1762
Jamaica imported 71,115 slaves.
1758
A school for free African American children is opened in Philadelphia.
1759-1762
Guadeloupe imported 40,000 slaves.
1766
July 11. Olaudah Equiano buys his freedom.
1773
Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable founded the settlement that is now known as Chicago.
 
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1775
July 3. Prince Hall founded Africa Lodge No. 1, (the first Black Lodge of Free Masons in the United States).
1776-1800
74,000 slaves a year were imported for the American colonies. The English imported 38,000; French, 20,000; Portuguese, 10,000; Dutch, 4,000; Danes, 2,000.
1777
July 2. Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery.
1781
Los Angeles is founded by fifty-four settlers, of which twenty-six are of African ancestry.
1783
African-Americans establish settlements in Nova Scotia (separate from Whites).
1785
New York frees all slaves who served in the Revolutionary Army.
1787
January 28. Free Africa Society is established in Philadelphia by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones.
October 17. In Massachusetts Prince Hall submitted, a petition asking for equal educational rights, but this was not granted.
November 1. Free African Americans in New York City set up ‘The African Free School of New York City.’
November 18. Sojourner Truth is born.
Speeches be Sojourner Truth
Shaka Zulu is born.
1790
The first Census of the United States
Total population: 3,929,214
African American population: 757,208 (19.3%)
59,557 were free African Americans.
1791
August 22. Toussaint joins the rebel slaves and the Haitian Revolution begins.
Benjamin Banneker publishes the first almanac.
1793
February 12. The first Fugitive Slave Law was passed.
1795
The British seize control of Cape Colony in South Africa from the Dutch.
1797
January 30. Congress refused to accept the first recorded petitions from African-Americans.
March 31. Olaudah Equiano dies in London.
1798
Egypt is conquered by Napoleon.
1800
January 22. Nat Turner is born.
Nat Turner timeline
The confessions of Nat Turner
US Census
Total population: 5,308,483
African American population: 1,002.037 (18.9%) 108,435 are free African Americans.
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