Charlotte for ten grimke journals

CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMKÉ TIMELINE

1837 (August 17):  Charlotte Forten was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Robert Bridges Forten and Mary Virginia Wood Forten.

1840 (August):  Charlotte’s mother died from tuberculosis.

1850:  The U.S.

Congress passed Fugitive Slave Act, which required seizure and return of runaway slaves who had escaped from slave-owning states; it was repealed in 1864.

1853 (November):  Charlotte Forten moved from Philadelphia to Salem, Massachusetts to the home of the Charles Lenox Remond family.

1855 (March):  Charlotte Forten graduated from the Higginson Grammar School and enrolled in Salem Normal School (now Salem State University).

1855 (September):  Forten joined the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society.

1856 (June/July):  Forten graduated from Salem Normal School and took a teaching position at the Eppes Grammar School in Salem.

1857 (March 6):  The U.S.

Supreme Court handed down the Dred Scott decision, which stated that African Americans were