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