History of slavery

historical aspect and field of study

8 dated entries naming History of slavery, drawn from 8 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

18th century

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

19th century

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 – captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.source