History of Slavery, Prisons, and Related State Violence in North America
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Updated: 27 Sep 2018
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Created byBelinda Kwan
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Stanford Prison ExperimentAttica Prison RiotGeorge Jackson is killedSlave Revolt: Saint-DomingueHereditary SlaveryAfrican Americans Own SlavesBacon's RebellionAnti-Slavery ResolutionPenalty for ManumissionRice PlantationsHiring OutStono RebellionQuakers Prohibit SlaveryCrispus AttucksSlave NarrativeFirst Black ChurchFirst Abolition SocietyFelix's PetitionPhillis WheatleyVermont Bans SlaveryFreedom SuitAfrican Mason LodgeGabriel RebellionEngine of the Underground RailroadHaitian RevolutionSlave Trade (Not Slavery Itself) Made Illegal"Freedom" in CanadaLiberiaVesey RevoltMexico Abolishes SlaveryNat Turner's RebellionAnti-Slavery Society SplitsNarrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassSeneca Falls ConventionHenry "Box" Brown"Moses" EscapesCompromise of 1850Father of the Underground RailroadAin't I a Woman?Uncle Tom's CabinKansas-Nebraska ActWhite Workers Cite Unfair Competition from SlavesLast Slave ShipEmancipation ProclamationSlavery Legally AbolishedSlavery officially abolished in British EmpireSlave Trade Decline in CanadaCanadian Confederation'Gradual Civilization Act' Passed'Gradual Enfranchisement Act' Passed'Indian Act' Passed'Act of Union' Passed'Common Schools Act' (1850) PassedCanadian Federal Director of Immigration fights the entry of Black Caribbean domesticsOngoing Housing Discrimination against BlacksProtest Against Toronto Skating RinkViola Desmond ArrestedA Thousand Caribbean Migrant LabourersSecond World War BeginsThe Hazel Huff case & anti-Black policies in EdmontonThe KKK's Institutional Affiliations (some examples)KKK March in Oakville: Assault of Ira Johnson and Isabel JonesTrial of Jonathan George & the Devaluation of Black WomenEmily Murphy's The Black CandleFirst Black Enslaved Person in CanadaLouis XIV Officially Approves Slavery1752 Peace and Friendship TreatyDamiens the regicide is
tortured & killed in public
(Foucault begins to document
the eventual decline of physical
torture and punishment in
criminal sentencing)Léon Faucher draws up rules/timetable
'for House of young prisoners in Paris'James Silk Buckingham proposes totalizing city designs to increase morality of publicPatrick Colquhoun argues for the policing of cultural/recreational activitiesCultural institutions proposed by Buckingham as way to prevent alcoholismFrancesco I de Medici's collection is transferred to the Uffizi GalleryUS Declaration of IndependencePeriods
African Slaves enter the New WorldTriangle TradeAmerican Slave TradeSlavery LegalizedAnti-Miscegenation LawsDemographic ChangesFreedom in FloridaNorthwest OrdinanceFugitive Slave Clause and Three-Fifths CompromiseNaturalization Act of 1790African Americans excluded from military serviceSecond Great AwakeningMissouri Compromise"Grand Central Station"Underground RailroadThe LiberatorAnti-Abolitionist RiotsGag Rule on Abolition'Amistad' MutinyFugitive Slave Act StrengthenedThe North StarFree Soil PartyBleeding KansasDred Scott DecisionRaid on Harper's FerryLincoln ElectedCivil WarStarvation of Indigenous PeoplesNova Scotia's "Africans' Schools"Racist Immigration PoliciesSegregated housing in Winnipeg & HamiltonThe Restriction of Blacks' Presence in Public SpacesRestrictions on the movement of Indigenous PeoplesSubjugation of Black Porters in the Railroad Industry'Black rapist' myth enforced by Canadian politicians & social groupsDemonstrated Increase of KKK Activity in CanadaCourt Discrimination against Blacks in Rape CasesCriminalization of Black Women's SexualityOpen Racism in the Sentencing of Black offendersUnequitable Sentencing for BlacksChinese & Black men frequently targeted by police18th Century Slave Owners in Nova ScotiaSlave ownership in Upper & Lower Canada'Black Loyalists' in American
Revolutionary War (1775-1783)The Chatham vigilance committee & other forms of Black resistanceNew Era of 'Multiculturalism'
Emerges in CanadaRe-interpretation of the body as intermediary for punishmentDecrease of Criminal Punishment as Public SpectacleBanishment a common sentence in France, but paired with suppliceConcept of governance as surveillance over wealth and behaviour of all peoplesEurope's 'Juridico-Discursive' Strategy of Cultural PowerEstablishment of Governmental/Disciplinary Cultural PowerStudiolos of the Renaissance PeriodRoyal Collections transferred to more public domainsPeak Emergence of 'Evolutionary' Time
in Museums of Scientific Knowledge
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