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Timeline - 19th Century

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• 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
• 1803: Napoleon reinstates slavery in French Caribbean
  Slave conspiracy discovered in Kingston, Jamaica
• 1807: British Slave Trade is abolished by Act of Parliament
  Last slaving voyage out of Bristol: the Alert carries 240 enslaved Africans from the West Coast to Jamaica
• 1808: USA abolishes the slave trade (the buying and selling of enslaved people)
  50 involuntary African recruits to the 2nd West India Regiment mutiny
• 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
• 1823: Slave rebellions in Jamaica and Demarara (now Guyana)
  Founding of the Anti-Slavery Committee in London
• 1824: Slave rebellion in Jamaica
• 1831: Slave rebellions in Antigua, Jamaica and Virginia
• 1833: Emancipation Act passed, becoming law in 1834, stipulating that slaves in the British empire would become formally free only after a four year period of 'apprenticeship'
  Revolt against 'apprenticeship' on St Kitts
• 1849: Harriet Tubman escapes to North in America, and helps other slaves escape on the 'Underground Railroad'
• 1861-1865: American Civil War is fought largely over whether individual states have the right to determine whether or not they allowed slavery. Slavery is abolished in the USA in 1865 (trading in slaves was abolished in 1808, this law meant freedom for existing slaves)
• 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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