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1502, first reported Afrrican slaves in the New World.
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Slave were put to work in sugar production by british in the Caribbean.
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White refuges go into United States ports,fleeing the insurrection in Santo Domingo.
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1803 Denmark is first to ban the slave trade.
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the Unites States passes legislation banning slave trade that will take effect the following year.
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Britain, the slave trading nation, bans the atlantic slave trade.
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British negotiate an agreement with Portugal calling for gradual abolition of slave trade in the South Alantic.
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Great Britain and Spain sign a treaty prohibiting the slave trade in the north equator.
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U.S congress passes legislation stiffening provisions against American participation in slavery.
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the Alantic slave trade3 was abolised over a 30-years period ending with Portugal's 1836 ban on slave trade. But legal abolition didn't end the still profitable trade, it continued illegually in the 19th century.Brazil and Cuba still continued to trade until 1860.
