| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1773 | | Massachusetts slaves begin petitioning for freedom | | slavery, abolition |
| 1776 | | Samuel Hopkins, A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans | An abolitionist argument ddressed to the continental congress. | abolition, Stowe |
| 1806 | | Black Baptists build a meeting house on Beacon Hill in Boston | The "African Meeting House," now on Boston's Black Heritage Trail, is considered the oldest surviving Black church building in America. | abolition |
| 1813 | | William Nell ships out of Charleston, S.C. as a steward | | maritime, abolition |
| 1829 | | David Walker, An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World | Published in Boston by a southern black, Walker's "Appeal" helped to spark the abolitionist movement. | abolition, slavery |
| 1831 | | Maria Stewart begins public speeches condemning slavery. | Stewart, a free black, may have been the first women in the U.S. to give public speeches against slavery. | abolition |
| 1832 | | Garrison begins "The Liberator" | | abolition |
| 1833 | | John Greenleaf Whittier joins the abolitionist cause. | Whittier was a close friend of William Lloyd Garrison even before joining the fight against slavery. | slavery, Whittier, abolition |
| 1833 | | Lydia Maria Child, "An Appeal for that Class of Americans Called Africans" | Child, who had previously published fiction and a cookbook, The American Frugal housewife, became a prominent antislavery writer and activist. | antislavery, abolition |
| 1834 | | Whittier publishes "The Slave Ship" | | slavery, abolition, maritime |
| 1837 | | Vermont abolitionists begin sheltering escaped slaves | See an interesting collection of documents and a debate over Vermont's role in the "Underground Railroad" at The Vermont Historical Society | |
| 1837 | | Sarah Grimke, "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes" | With her sister, Angelina, Grimke traveled throughout New England, meeting with female wage workers as well as abolitionists. | women's work |
| 1837 | | Angeline and Sarah Grimke tour New England | | abolition, women |
| 1839 | | Amistad trial in New Haven | | slavery abolition maritime |
| 1842 | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems on Slavery | | slavery, abolition |
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| 1845 | | Frederick Douglas publishes his narrative. | He became a powerful voice in both the anti-slavery and women's rights movements. | slavery, abolition |
| 1851 | | Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | | slavery, abolition |
| 1857 | | Dred Scott Decision | | slavery, abolition |
| 1859 | | Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing | Stowe's hero was a Newport, Rhode Island minister named Samuel Hopkins. | Stowe, abolition, slavery |
