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Early 1400's EUROPEANS begin contacts with the people of West Africa
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It was an triangle event that was a trading of goods and slaves
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Prior to 1400: Slavery existed in AFICA and elsewhere around the world.
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1400's: Europeans brought FEW slaves to Europe
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MADE IT TO THE TIP Bartholomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa
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1526: Kind Affonso said to the Portuguese government, "It is our will that in these kingdoms there should not be any trade of slaves nor outlet for them.
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1600's A trade network, with people as cargo linked Africa, Europe, and the Americas
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1700's: talk of abolition by European thinkers.
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1787: British set up SIERRA LEONE as a colony for freed slaves to return to Africa
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Late 1800's: Mirambo built a strong empire in Tanzania. Because the people were the ones doing the kidnaping
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1807: Britain outlawed the slave trade, but the ban did not outlaw slavery
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1833: Britain banned slavery in it's empire
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Liberia was organized after by slaves from the United States
Became an independent country in 1847 -
1865: US Civil War partially caused by slave partially caused by slavery
