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British in 70% about Americas, (CAG) is the umbrella organisation organisation umbrella the is (CAG) Group Associations Caribbean The and Caribbean the to taken were Africans enslaved million 12 least At The triangular trade triangular The About Aspire About Timeline: Slave Trade & Abolition 1698 The Royal African Company monopoly ends, opening the trade to private traders from Bristol and Liverpool. Different forms of slavery are common throughout history but before the 15th century there was no particular association with Africa. Advances in 1713 Under the Treaty of Utrecht following the War of the Spanish Portuguese ship design made it possible to sail down the coast of Africa Succession, Britain is awarded the sole right to import an unlimited in search of trade and wealth. number of slaves to the Spanish Caribbean colonies for 30 years. 1444 First slaves brought to Portugal from northern Mauritania. 1730 First Maroon War in Jamaica. Groups of escaped slaves use guerilla tactics in the mountainous interior to harass British troops protecting 1471 Portuguese arrive in the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana). plantations. A treaty in 1739 confirms their free status. 1482 Portuguese begin building Elmina Castle on the Gold Coast. 1736 Plantation owners on Antigua discovered a slave plot to steal 1490 First Portuguese missionaries go to Congo. gunpowder and blow up the island’s gentry at a ball. As punishment 88 1492 Christopher Columbus sails west to find the fabled spice islands of slaves were put to death, most of them by being burned alive. ©British Library The Maroons in Ambush on the Dromilly Estate in the Parish of Trelawney, Jamaica, the East Indies but makes landfall in the Caribbean. 1760 Tacky’s Revolt erupted in Jamaica. The first rebels are thought to J Mérigot, 1801 1500 Sugar plantations established on island of São Tomé two hundred be newly imported slaves from the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) led 1789 The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa miles off the coast of west Africa. by Tacky, from the Akan people. The 49th Regiment of Foot (later the the African is published. 1510 First slaves shipped to Spanish colonies in south America via Spain. Royal Berkshire Regiment) were part of the forces used to put down the uprising with the execution of 400 rebels. 1791 William Wilberforce’s first Abolition Bill is defeated in Parliament 1518 First direct shipment of slaves from Africa to the Americas. 163 votes to 88, but he continues to introduce bills throughout the 1790s. Britain, the Netherlands and France were competing with Spain and 1765 Granville Sharp begins legal challenges to the British slave trade with the case of Jonathan Strong. 1791 A slave uprising in St Domingue triggers the Haitian Revolution, led Portugal for a share of the profits of slavery. This new trans-Atlantic by Toussaint L’Ouverture. slave trade was very different from the slavery that had existed before. 1772 John Woolman, an American Quaker and early anti-slavery 1794 France abolishes slavery in all its territories. 1555 A group of Africans from Gold Coast are brought to England by campaigner comes to England to gather support from English Quakers. 1795-96 Second Maroon War in Jamaica. Eight month full-scale guerilla John Lok, a London merchant, to learn English so that they can act as 1772 Leading abolitionist Granville Sharpe wins historic ruling in James war between 5,000 British troops and local militia and the Maroons of interpreters in their homelands. The English want to break the monopoly Somerset case in London. Chief Justice Lord Mansfield rules that Trelawny Town ended in stalemate. that the Portuguese have over the African trade in gold, ivory and pepper.
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