History of slavery

historical aspect and field of study

17 dated entries naming History of slavery, drawn from 16 separate years between 52 CE and 1829 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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1st century

52In Rome, a law prohibits the execution of old and crippled slaves.source

7th century

700The African slave trade through the Sahara is so extensive that the town of Zawila (Tunisia) is established.source

15th century

1452June 18 – Pope Nicholas V issues the bull Dum Diversas, legitimising the colonial slave trade.source
1472An 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.source

17th century

166018 December – the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa is chartered; it will come to have a monopoly over the English slave trade. It is led by Duke of York.source
169824 June – abolition of the Royal African Company's monopoly is confirmed under terms of the Trade with Africa Act 1697, opening the slave trade to any merchant.source

18th century

1747Liverpool becomes the busiest slave trading port in Britain, overtaking Bristol.source
1751June 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.source
1781November 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.source
178319 March – Zong massacre: the case of a British slave trader who, in 1781, threw approximately 142 slaves overboard to conserve supplies for the remainder, the owners subsequently attempting to reclaim part of their value from insurers, is revealed by Olaudah Equiano to anti-slavery activist Granville Sharp, creating new support for abolitionism.source
1788May – the Prime Minister moves for an investigation by the House of Commons into the slave trade to begin; it will be led by Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce.source
1789April – Privy Council report on the slave trade published.source
1791April – William Wilberforce introduces a bill to Parliament to abolish the slave trade but it is defeated.source

19th century

18031 January – Denmark–Norway abolishes transatlantic slave trade.source
1807March 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).source
1829June 5 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.source
18295 June – Slave trade: HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.source