{"slug": "history-of-slavery", "label": "History of slavery", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12981973", "qid": "Q12981973", "description": "historical aspect and field of study", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [52, 1829], "span_label": ["52 CE", "1829 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ancient-rome", "label": "Ancient Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-law", "label": "Roman law", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "portugal", "label": "Portugal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-portugal", "label": "Kingdom of Portugal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "africa", "label": "Africa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cameroon", "label": "Cameroon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cuba", "label": "Cuba", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tunisia", "label": "Tunisia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mahdia", "label": "Mahdia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-empire", "label": "British Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "liverpool", "label": "Liverpool", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "south-carolina", "label": "South Carolina", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 52, "year_label": "52 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "In Rome, a law prohibits the execution of old and crippled slaves.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Roman_Empire", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 52 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 700, "year_label": "700 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The African slave trade through the Sahara is so extensive that the town of Zawila (Tunisia) is established.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806781#Arabian_Empire", "title": "700", "revid": 1340806781, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 1452, "year_label": "1452 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – Pope Nicholas V issues the bull Dum Diversas, legitimising the colonial slave trade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355060030#April–June", "title": "1452", "revid": 1355060030, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1472, "year_label": "1472 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "An extensive slave trade begins in modern Cameroon as the Portuguese sail up the Wouri River and Fernão do Po claims the central-African islands Bioko and Annobón for Portugal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365251690#Undated", "title": "1472", "revid": 1365251690, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1751, "year_label": "1751 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – The colony of South Carolina reverses a 10-year-old law that had imposed a tax of 100 pounds sterling on the purchase of imported African slaves, and reduces the tax to £10. The move effectively restores the slave trade to the colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351037611#April–June", "title": "1751", "revid": 1351037611, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1781, "year_label": "1781 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 29", "text": "November 29 – English slave traders begin to throw approximately 142 slaves taken on in Accra overboard alive from the slave ship Zong in the Caribbean Sea to conserve supplies for the remainder; the Liverpool owners subsequently attempt to reclaim part of their value from insurers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370562964#October–December", "title": "1781", "revid": 1370562964, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1807, "year_label": "1807 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – The United Kingdom Slave Trade Act becomes law abolishing the slave trade in most of the British Empire with effect from 1 May (slavery itself is abolished in British colonies in 1833).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362733939#January–March", "title": "1807", "revid": 1362733939, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1829, "year_label": "1829 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 – captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371400114#April–June", "title": "1829", "revid": 1371400114, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}