A Chronology of Slavery
Africa Reparations Movement Information Sheet
12 July 1995
- 1441
- Antam Goncalves, a Portuguese sailor, seized ten Africans near Cape Bojador; usually taken as the part of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
- 1492
- October 12, Christopher Columbus sights land in the Bahamas; October 28, lands in Cuba.
- 1515
- First samples of Caribbean sugar sent to Spain.
- 1624
- English colonise Barbados and St. Kitts.
- 1647
- First Barbados sugar sent to England.
- 1655
- English capture Jamaica from the Spanish.
- 1772
- Lord Mansfield decision in England.
- 1808
- Trans-Atlantic slave trade abolished in British Empire; and in the United States.
- 1813
- Sweden abolishes slave trade.
- 1820
- Spain declares slave trade illegal.
- 1827
- Britain declares slave trading piracy, thus punishable by death.
- 1833
- Emancipation Act in British Parliament 5 year apprenticeship system.
- 1838
- Slavery finally abolished in British empire.
- 1846
- Sweden abolishes slavery.
- 1863
- Holland abolishes slavery
- 1873
- Puerto Rico abolishes slavery.
- 1886
- Cuba abolishes slavery.
