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1444 |
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first slaves brought to Portugal from northern Mauritania |
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1444-5 |
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Portuguese make contract with Sub-Saharan Africa |
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1471 |
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Portuguese arrive in the Gold Coast |
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1482 |
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Portuguese begin building Elmina Castle on the Gold Coast |
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1488 |
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Bartholomew Diaz goes round the Cape of Good Hope |
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1490 |
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first Portuguese missionaries go to Congo |
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1500 |
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sugar plantations established on island of Sao Tome two hundred miles from coast of West Africa |
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1510 |
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first slaves shipped to Spanish colonies in South America via Spain |
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1516 |
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Benin ceases to export male slaves, fearing loss of manpower |
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1518 |
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first direct shipment of slaves from Africa to the Americas |
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1780's |
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slave trade at its peak |
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1652 |
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Dutch establish colony at Cape of Good Hope, South Africa |
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1700 |
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Asanti begin to consolidate power |
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1720's |
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Kingdom of Dahomey expands |
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1776-1783 |
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American War of Independence |
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1787 |
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'Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery' by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano published by the Foundation of the Society for the Abolition of Slave Trade |
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1789 |
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French Revolution. 'Life of Olaudah Equiano' published |
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1791 |
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slave uprising in Haiti (Saint Domingue) led by Toussaint L'Ouverture |
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1804 |
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pass law against slave trade Haitian independence |
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1807 |
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British law passed declaring buying, selling and transporting slaves illegal (ownership continues) |
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1808 |
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North America abolish slave trade |
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1814 |
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Dutch outlaw slave trade |
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1823 |
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founding of Anti-slavery Committee London |
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1834 |
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British law passed declaring ownership of slaves illegal |
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1839 |
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Amistad slave ship rebellion |
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1848 |
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French abolish slavery |
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1860-65 |
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American Civil War |
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1865 |
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13th Amendment abolishes slavery in America |
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1869 |
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Portugal abolishes slavery |
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1886 |
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slavery abolished in Cuba |
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1888 |
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slavery abolished in Brazil |
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1873 |
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slave market in Zanzibar closed |
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1936 |
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slavery made illegal in Northern Nigeria |
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