Anti-Slavery Background: Trends in the Nations[1]
|
Date |
Event,
Era, Movement, or Other Fact |
1500s |
Slave
sales by Portuguese, Spanish |
1600s |
Slave
sales by the Dutch |
1700s |
Slave
sales by the English |
1761 |
Slavery
outlawed, |
1772 |
Slavery
outlawed, |
1794 |
Slavery
outlawed, |
1833 |
Reform of
slavery— |
Nations were
also ending the slave trade, and the
US action of ending the external slave trade was in keeping with Britain’s.
1792 |
Slave
trade outlawed, |
1810 |
Slave
trade outlawed, |
1808 |
Slave
trade (importation, not internal) outlawed, |
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[1] Primarily based on data in the Encyclopedia of World History, 6th Edition (2001), Peter N. Stearns, editor.