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* * * Part one - AFRICA BEFORE SLAVERY
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1562 First English slaving expedition by Sir John Hawkins

1619 First recorded cargo of Africans landed in Virginia

1625 First English settlement on Barbados

1626 First boatload of enslaved Africans to St. Kitts

1631 Charles I granted monopoly on Guinea trade to a group of London merchants

1655 British capture of Jamaica as part of Cromwell’s ‘Grand Design’

1672 Royal Africa Company granted charter to carry Africans to the Americas

1772 Slavery declared illegal in England, Wales & Ireland (the Somerset case)

1778 Slavery declared illegal in Scotland

1781 Over 100 enslaved Africans thrown overboard from the slave ship Zong

1783 Committee on the Slave Trade established by Quakers’ Meeting for Sufferings

1787 Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded: Granville Sharp as president of a mostly Quaker committee

1791 23 August - St Domingue (Haiti) slave revolt

1792 Resolution for gradual abolition of the slave trade defeated in House of Lords

1805 Bill for Abolition passed in Commons, rejected in House of Lords

1807 25 March - Slave Trade Abolition Bill passed in the British Parliament

1808 US abolished the slave trade

1833 Abolition of Slavery British Empire Bill passed, with effect from 1834 and providing for up to six year ‘apprentice’ transition
£20M voted as compensation to slave owners

1838 1 August - enslaved men, women and children in British Empire became free

1842 Britain & US signed Webster-Ashburton Treaty, banning slave trade on high seas

1848 Emancipation by the French of their slaves

1850 The Fugitive Slave Law passed in the United States

1865 Slavery finally abolished in United States territories

1888 Slavery abolished in Brazil

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