Slavery

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/14/1500	Portugease at Gold Coast	In 1482, the Portuguese arrived and established a fort at Elmina. The region became a major gold supplier to Europe.
12/14/1502	First merchant sending African slaves to America	1502: Juan de Córdoba of Seville was the first identified merchant to send an African slave to the New World. He is permitted by the Spanish authorities to only send one slave.
12/14/1505	Sugar Cane in New World	The first record of sugar cane being grown in the New World it was in Santo Domingo (modern Dominican Republic).
01/22/1510	Transportation of Slaves to New World	Start of the systematic transportation of African slaves to the New World: King Ferdinand of Spain authorises a shipment of 50 African slaves to be sent to Santo Domingo.
08/18/1518	Import 4000 Slaves	Significant escalation of the slave trade, Charles V grants his Flemish courtier Lorenzo de Gorrevod permission to import 4000 African slaves into New Spain. From this point onwards thousands of slaves are sent to the New World each year.
12/14/1525	Direct Slave Trade	1525 First slave voyage direct from Africa to the Americas
11/14/1528	Slaves in US	November 1528: a slave called Esteban (or Estevanico) becomes the first African slave to step foot on what is now the United States of America.
10/14/1562	English slave trade	October 1562: John Hawkins of Plymouth becomes the first English sailor that we know about to have obtained African slaves - approximately 300 of them in Sierra Leone - for sale in the West Indies. Hawkins traded the slaves illegally with Spanish colonies, but the trip was profitable and others followed. These contributed to increasing tensions between England and Spain. (As well as initiating the English slave trade, Hawkins also introduced both the potato and tobacco to England.)
12/14/1600	Gold Coast	Europeans gained interest in the Gold Coast beginning in the 17th century because of its rich gold deposits.
12/14/1642	Dutch on Gold Coast	1642, the Dutch had forced out the Portuguese.
12/14/1750	Large Slave Trade	by 1750, the slave trade was booming
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
12/01/1500 to 12/14/1750	Slavery 1500-1750