The Slave Trade

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  • 1502

    First African slaves arrive in the Americas

  • Large scale trading starts

  • New laws introduced to make better conditions on ships - concern for crew

  • Society for Effecting the Abolition of the African Slave Trade founded by Thomas Clarkson

  • Odaulah Equiano's autobiography is published

  • Slave deaths on ships has decreased from 1 in 5 to 1 in 18 since 1750

  • The abolition of the Slave Trade by law takes effect

  • Slave trading becomes punishable by the death penalty

  • Civil war begins

  • Civil war ends and slavery is abolished