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A historical timeline
6th century BC: Cyrus the
Great in Persia.
3rd century BC: Ashoka in
India.
AD 9: Emperor Wang Mang in
China
Early ancient history
960: Venice –prohibited slave trade
1102: London, England
–prohibited slave trade and
serfdom
1117: Iceland
1214: Croatia
1256: Comune
di Bologna (Italy)
1274: Norway
1315: France
1335: Sweden
and Finland
1416: Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovn
ik, Croatia)
8th – 15th centuries
1542: Spain enacted the first European law
abolishing colonial slavery
1588: The Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth abolishes slavery
1595: Portugal banning the selling and buying of
Chinese slaves.
1590: Japan bans slaves.
15th – 16th Centuries
1619: The first African slaves arrive in Virginia.
1652: Slavery abolished in Providence Plantations
Early Colonial Years in Northern America
Transport of Slaves
1775: Pennsylvania
Abolition Society formed
1780: Pennsylvania passes An Act
for the Gradual
Abolition of Slavery
1783: Massachusetts
slaves are immediately
freed.
1783: New Hampshire
begins abolition of
slavery.
1784: Connecticut
begins abolition of
slavery
1784: Rhode Island begins
a gradual abolition of
slavery.
1787: any new slavery in the
Northwest Territories outlawed
1799: New York State
gradual emancipation
act
18th Century
1701: England.
1723: Russia abolishes outright
slavery but retains
serfdom.
1777: Madeira, Portugal
1783: Russia abolishes slavery in Crimean Khanate
1787: Sierra Leone
1787: Society for
the Abolition of
the Slave Trade
founded in Britain
1793: Upper Canada
(Ontario) abolishes import of slaves by
1794: France
abolishes slavery;
restored by Napoleon in 1802.
1799: Scotland
1804: New Jersey gradual abolition of slavery
1807: Thomas Jefferson signed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves
1807: Territorial Justice Augustus Woodward of the Michigan Territory
denies the return of 2 slaves
1802 - 1807
1802: The First Consul
Napoleon re-introduces
slavery
1803: Denmark-Norway
abolition of transatlantic slave trade
1804: Haiti
1807: British Empire
abolished slave trade.
1807: Poland abolishes serfdom
1807: British begin patrols of
African coast
1807: Prussia abolishes serfdom
1810: Mexico
1811: Slave trading made a felony in
the British
1811: Spain abolishes slavery at home and in all
colonies except Cuba, Puerto Rico,
and Santo Domingo
1811: Chile
1813: Argentina gradual
abolishment of slavery
1808 - 1813
1808: In United States, Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves takes effect 1 Jan.
1814: Uruguay
1814: The Netherlands outlaws
slave trade.
1815: British pay
Portugal £750,000
1816: Estonia
1817: Spain paid
£400,000 by British to
cease trade to Cuba,
Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo
1818: Treaty between
Britain and Spain to abolish
slave trade
1818: Treaty between
Britain and Portugal to
abolish slave trade
1818: France
abolishes slave
trading
1819: Livonia
abolished serfdom
1820: Mexico
formally abolishes slavery
1814 - 1820
1817: New York State sets a date of July 4, 1827 to free all its slaves.
1820: Compromise of 1820 in U.S. prohibits slavery north of a line (36°30')
1821: Gran Colombia (Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama)
1822: Greece
1823: Chile
1824: Mexico
frees existing slaves.
1824: The Federal
Republic of Central America abolishes slavery.
1825: Uruguay declares
independence from Brazil and prohibits the traffic of slaves
1827: Treaty
between Britain
and Sweden
to abolish slave trade
1830: Mexican president Anastasio
Bustamante orders the
abolition of slavery in Mexican Texas.
1830: Uruguay declares
the abolition
of slavery.
1831: Bolivia
abolishes slavery
1821 - 1831
1822: Liberia founded by American Colonization Society (USA) as a colony for emancipated slaves.
1828: New York State abolishes slavery.
1834: The British Slavery
Abolition Act comes into force
1835: Treaty between
Britain and France to abolish
slave trade
1835: Treaty between
Britain and Denmark to
abolish slave trade
1836: Portugal abolishes
transatlantic slave trade
1839: British and Foreign
Anti-Slavery Society
founded
1839: Indian indenture
system made illegal (reversed in
1842)
1840: Treaty between
Britain and Venezuela to abolish
slave trade
1841: Britain, France, Russia,
Prussia, and Austria
suppress slave trade
1834 - 1842
1843: East India
Company becomes abolishes slavery in
India
1843: Treaty
between Britain
and Uruguay
to suppress
slave trade
1843: Treaty
between Britain
and Mexico to suppress
slave trade
1843: Treaty
between Britain
and Chile to
suppress slave trade
1843: Treaty
between Britain
and Bolivia to
abolish slave trade
1846: Under British
pressure the Bay Tunisia
outlawed the slave trade; the
policy was reversed
by his successor.
1847: Under British
pressure the
Ottoman Empire
abolishes slave trade
1847: Sweden
abolishes slavery
1848: Slavery
abolished in all
French and
Danish colonies
1848: France founds
Gabon for settlement
of emancipated slaves.
1849: Treaty
between Britain
and Persian
Gulf states to
suppress slave trade
1843 - 1849
1847: Slavery ends in Pennsylvania. Those born before 1780 (fewer than 100 in 1840 Census) are freed.
1851: New Granada
(Colombia) abolishes slavery
1853: Argentina abolishes slavery
1854: Peru
abolishes slavery
1854: Venezuela abolishes slavery
1855: Moldavia partially abolishes slavery.
1856: Wallachia partially abolishes slavery.
1860: Indenture
system abolished
within British-
occupied India.
1861: Russia
frees its serfs
1862: Cuba
abolishes slave trade
1850 - 1862
1850: In the United States, the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 requires
return of escaped slaves
1852: The Hawaiian Kingdom abolishes kauwa system of serfdom.
1862: Treaty between United States and Britain for the suppression of the
slave trade (African Slave Trade Treaty Act).
1863: Dutch coloni
es.
1869: Portugal African colonies
1873: Puerto
Rico
1873: Britain and Zanzibar
and Madagasca
r to suppress
slave trade
1874: Britain
abolishes slavery in the Gold
Coast (now
Ghana)
1882: Ottoman Empire
abolishes all forms of slavery
1886: Cuba
1888: Brazil
abolishing slavery
1894: Korea officially abolishes slavery, in
practice until 1930.
1896: Madagascar
1897: Zanzibar
1863 - 1899
1863: Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation
1865: December: U.S. abolishes slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment
1866: Slavery abolished in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).
1902:
Ethiopian Empire
1906: China
1912: Siam
(Thailand),
1921: Nepal
1922: Moroc
co
1923: Afghanistan
1924: Iraq
1928: Iran
1928: Sierra Leone
1936: Britain abolishes slavery in Northern Nigeria.
1902 - 1936
1905: W.E.B. DuBoisfounds the Niagara
movement, a forerunner to the
NAACP.
1909: The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People is founded in New
York
1914: Marcus Garvey establishes the
Universal Negro Improvement Association.
1920s: The Harlem
Renaissance flourishes in the 1920s and 1930s.
1931: Scottsboro
Boys
1945: Nazi Germany
and Japan concentration camps
1946: Fritz Sauckel,
procurer of slave labor for Nazi Germany,
executed
1948: UN bans slavery
1952: Qatar
1959: Tibet
1960: Niger
1962: Saudi Arabia
1962: Yemen
1945 - 1962
1947: Jackie Robinson
1948: Black
Soldiers
1952: Malcolm X
1954: Racial segregation in schools
1955: Emmett
Till
1955: Rosa Parks
1957: The
Little Rock Nine
1962: James Meredith
1963: UAE
1963 - 1968
1963: Martin Luther
King, Jr.
1963: The March on
Washington
1963: the Sixteenth
Street Baptist Church
1964: Andrew Goodman, James Earl
Chaney, and Michael
Schwerner
1964: Civil
Rights Act
1964: MLK – Peace Nobel Prize
1965: Malcolm X
assassinated
1965: Voting
Rights Act
1967: Thurgood Marshall
1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
1972: Tuskegee Syphilis
experiment ends
1978 : University of California v.
Bakke
1992: Rodney King
2003: Grutter v. Bollinger
2006 : Parents v.
Seattle and Meredith v.
Jefferson
2008: Barack Obama, the first African
American president of the United States
2012: Barack Obama, the first African American to be re-elected as president
of the United States
1972 - Present
1970: Oman abolishes slavery
1981: Mauritania abolishes slavery
2007: Mauritania
makes it illegal to
own slaves
2012: Mauritania as "Slavery's Last Stronghold"
Estimated number of
slaves today is
up to 28.4 million
Bonded labor /
debt bondage –
18.1 million
Forced labor – 7.6
million
Trafficked slaves -
2.7 million
Present Day Slavery
The average global sales
price of a slave is
approximately $340
$1,895 is the price for the
average trafficked sex
slave
$40 to $50 is the price for debt
bondage slaves in Asia and
Africa.
91.2 billion in profits in 2007. That is second only to drug trafficking in
terms of global criminal
enterprises.
The weighted average annual
profits generated by a slave in 2007 was $3,175,
with a low of an average
$950 for bonded labor
and $29,210 for a trafficked sex
slave.
Approximately 40% of all slave
profits each year are
generated by trafficked sex
slaves, representing slightly more than 4 percent of the world's approximately
29 million slaves.
Economics of Slavery