1801 |
L'Ouverture is captured and brought to France where he is imprisoned and dies (Haiti successfully resists French and British troops and retains independence but under increasingly authoritarian rulers) |
1802 |
Danes abolish the slave trade in their colonies
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1803 |
Napoleon reinstates slavery in French Caribbean
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Last slaving voyage out of Bristol: the Alert carries 240 enslaved Africans from the West Coast to Jamaica
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1808 |
USA abolishes the slave trade (the buying and selling of enslaved people)
50 involuntary African recruits to the 2nd West India Regiment mutiny
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1815 |
Slave rebellion in Jamaica |
1816 |
Bussa's Rebellion in Barbados |
1822 |
Campaign to set up international police force to stop illegal slave trade fails. In Britain, attention turns to the emancipation of the slaves in British colonies
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1823 |
Slave rebellions in Jamaica and Demarara (now Guyana)
Founding of the Anti-Slavery Committee in London
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1824 |
Slave rebellion in Jamaica |
1831 |
Slave rebellions in Antigua, Jamaica and Virginia |
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Revolt against 'apprenticeship' on St Kitts
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1849 |
Harriet Tubman escapes to North in America, and helps other slaves escape on the 'Underground Railroad' |
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1869 |
Portugal is the last European country to abolish slavery |
1870 |
Brazil still has 1.5 million slaves |
1888 |
Bill passes in Brazil to free 1.5 million slaves |
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