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