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__Slavery Timeline__
1.  1693 The slaves would escape to Florida and become Roman Catholics. 2.  1700s The slaves would escape to marshlands where no one would find them and become free. 3.  1700s-end The slaves would rebel silently they would work slowly, claim to be ill, and pretend not to understand orders. 4.  1700s to end The slaves would just runaway from there masters and follow the underground railroad up north and eventually to Canada. 5.  1812 The British would free them and take them into their army to fight against the Americans. After the war the treaty said that the slaves would need to be returned to their masters but some never went back. 6.  1815 The slaves that were living in Florida took over an old British fort and raided Southern plantations. Eventually an army was sent out to capture the fort and after 10 days the runaway slaves were forced to surrender. But there was still many groups in Florida hiding from slave owners. 7.  1822 Slaves would revolt to become free and stand up to there masters, they were hardly ever successful because the masters had weapons. In 1822 a revolt happened in South Carolina. 8.  1861 1865 The slaves would escape or be freed to fight with the Union army. 9.  1863 Emancipation proclamation was put into to act and it said that all slaves where the Union was fighting were to be set free.