PWP period timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 11 Apr 2023
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Created byRuba Akkad
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1765-1767: Stamp Act & Townshend Acts1770-1773: Boston Massacre & Boston Tea PartyMarch–June 1774: Intolerable ActsJanuary 10, 1776: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense publishedJuly 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence adoptedDecember 25–26, 1776: Washington crosses the DelawareDecember 19, 1777–June 19, 1778: Washington winters at Valley ForgeSeptember 3, 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the war1789: Olaudah Equiano publishes The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano1807: Great Britain abolishes the slave trade with its colonies1808: The U.S. Congress bans the importation of slaves into the country1833–34: Great Britain passes the Slavery Abolition Act in 18331861-1865: Emancipation Proclamation & 13th Amendment1753: Phillis Wheatley is born in Africa1761: Phillis Wheatley captured and transported to America1784: Phillis Wheatley Peters diesPeriods
1780s: Peak of transatlantic slave trade
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