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Ignatius Sancho dies at his home and shop in Charles Street, Westminister.
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Publication of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.
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William Wilberforce delivers first major abolition speech before the House of Commons.
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Olaudah Equiano dies at his home in Cambridgeshire.
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Led a slave rebllion in Virginia on August 21, 1831
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British Parliament votes to abolish the trade in slaves.
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Born February 17, 1818 and died February 20, 1895.
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Margaret Garner was a slave in pre-Civil War America notorious for killing her two year old daughter with a butcher knife, rather than see the child returned to slavery.
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He was born in 1799 and died on September 17, 1858.
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Emancipation Proclamation issued by US President Abraham Lincoln.
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US Emancipation Proclamation comes into force.
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Thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed. The amendment stated that: 'Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.'
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Ratification of thirteenth amendment completed.
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Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 and died March 10, 1913
