| Date |
Event
|
| 1444 |
first slaves brought to Portugal from northern Mauritania |
| 1444-5 |
Portuguese make a contract with sub Saharan Africa |
| 1471 |
Portuguese arrive in the Gold Coast |
| 1482 |
Portuguese start building Elmina castle in the Gold
Coast |
| 1488 |
1488- Bartholomew Diaz goes round the Cape of Good
Hope |
| 1490 |
first Portuguese missionaries go to Congo |
| 1500 |
sugar plantations established on the island of Sao
Tome two hundred miles form coast of West Africa |
| 1510 |
- first slaves shipped to Spanish colonies in South
America via Spain |
| 1516 |
Benin ceases to export male slaves , fearing loss
of power |
| 1532 |
first direct shipment of slaves from Africa to the
Americans |
| 1780's |
slave trade at its peak |
| 1652 |
Dutch establish colony at Cape of Good Hope, South
Africa |
| 1700 |
Ashanti begin to consolidate power |
| 1720' |
Kingdom of Dohomey expands |
| 1776- 1783 |
- American war of independence |
| 1787 |
- Thoughts and sentiments on the Evil of Slavery by
Quobna Ottobah Cugoana published by the foundation of the Society
for the Abolition Of Slave Trade |
| 1789 |
French Revolution. 'Life of Olaudah Equiano' published |
| 1791 |
Slave uprising in Haiti ( Sint Domingue) led by Toussaint
L'Ouverture |
| 1804 |
Danes pass a law against slave trade Haitian independence |
| 1807 |
British Law passed declaring buying, selling and transporting
slaves (ownership continues) |
| 1814 |
Dutch outlaw slave trade |
| 1823 |
founding of Anti-slavery Committee London |
| 1834 |
- British law passed declaring ownership of slaves
illegal |
| 1839 |
Amistad slave ship rebellion |
| 1848 |
French abolish slavery |
| 1860-65 |
American Civil War |
| 1895- 13th |
Amendment abolishes slavery in America |
| 1869 |
Portugal abolishes slavery |
| 1886 |
slavery abolished in Cuba |
| 1888 |
slavery abolished in Brazil |
| 1873 |
slave market in Zanzibar closed |
| 1936 |
slavery made illegal in Northern Nigeria |
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