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Period: Feb 7, 1500 to
timeline
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Feb 7, 1502
First reported African slaves in the new world
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Beginning on large-scale introduction of African slave labor in British Carribean for suger production
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The Hatian Revolution begins as a slave uprising near Le Cap in the French West Indian colony of Santo Domingo and leads to establishment of black nations on 1801
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Waves of white refugees pour into U.S ports, fleeing the insurrection in Santo Domingo
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The French National Convention emancipations all slaves in the French colonies
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U.S enacts stiff penalties for American citizens serving voluntarily on slavers trading between two foreign countries
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British Parliament bans the Atlantic slave trade in Britain
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Great Britain and Spain sign a treaty prohibiting the slave trade
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U.S law makes slave trade piracy, punishable by the death penalty
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A large-scale slave revolt breaks out in Jamaica -- brutally repressed.
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Great Britain passes the Abolition of Slavery Act, providing for emancipation in the British West Indies -- set to take effect August 1834. (Following emancipation, a 6 year period of apprenticeship is permitted.)
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Britain invites the U.S. and France to create an international patrol to interdict slaving. The U.S. declines to participate.
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In the British West Indies, most colonial assemblies have introduced legislation dismantling apprenticeships. Laws against vagrancy and squatting attempt to keep the social and labor system of the plantation economy intact, with varying results.
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The British navy brig Buzzard escorts two American slavers, the brig Eagle and the schooner Clara, to New York City to be tried as pirates. Two more arrive several weeks later, and another pair later that Fall.
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Nicholas Trist is dismissed as U.S. Consul in Havana, amid allegations he connived at, or at any rate took no effort to suppress, frequent illegal sales of U.S. vessels to Spanish slave traders.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was made by Abraham Lincoln and slavery was banned in the U.S and all over the world