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1808 |
The Abolition Act takes effect. Sugar prices continue to be very low. Mariegalante and Desirade are captured by the British. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1808 |
Thomas Clarkson, The History of . . . The Abolition of the African Slave
Trade by the British Parliament. |
*Abolition |
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1809 |
Abolition: Sugar prices rise. Senegal, Marinique, and Cayenne captured by the British. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1809 |
Publication of a very important anti-slavery volume, Poems on the abolition of the slave trade, written by James Montgomery, James Grahame, and E. Benger. Embellished with engravings from pictures painted by R. Smirke, edited by Robert Bowyer. |
*Abolition |
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1810 |
The Portuguese agree, under British pressure, to abolish the slave trade gradually. The revolutionary government of Caracas proclaims
abolition. Mexican revolutionaries proclaim emancipation. Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Bourbon, and the Ile de France are captured by the British. Sugar prices rise. The slave trade shows signs of new vigor. |
*Abolition
*France
*Colonialism |
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1811 |
Parliament makes slave trading a felony. Spain's revolutionary Cortes debates abolition and receives Cuban objections. Java is captured by the British and the slave trade to that island ends. Sugar prices fall sharply through 1811. |
*Abolition
*Spain
*Colonialism |
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1812 |
Abolition: A registry of slaves is begun in Trinidad. Sugar prices begin to rise. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1813 |
Sweden agrees to abolition on obtaining Guadeloupe from the British. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1814 |
Abolitionists prepare to lobby the Congress of Vienna. The treaty of Paris restores the French slave trade for five years. A mass petition ensues in Britain. Britain begins a strong diplomatic effort for total international abolition. The Dutch accept abolition before their colonies are restored. The French agree to a restriction of the slave-trade coast. Guadeloupe and Martinique are returned to France. Sugar prices reach record heights. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism
*France |
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1815 |
Bonaparte decrees abolition in France during the Hundred Days and the restoration government accepts the decree. Britain secures a declaration against the slave trade at the Congress of Vienna. Sugar prices continue high. Slave trade to Cuba begins to rise sharply. |
*France
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1816 |
Abolition: Slave uprising in Barbados incurs brutal retaliation. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1823 |
Clarkson and Wilberforce found The Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions and its influential Monthly Reporter. Parliament debates emancipation. Slave uprising in Demerara polarizes the factions. |
*Abolition |
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1825 |
Women join the abolition movement in large numbers with increasing influence and visibility: three women's antislavery societies were formed at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Calne; by 1830, there were 40 more. |
*Abolition |
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1826 |
Amelia Opie, "The Black Man's Lament, or How to Make Sugar." |
*Abolition |
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1831 |
Abolition: Massive slave revolt in Jamaica with retaliations against slaves and sympathetic missionaries. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1831 |
Abolition: Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West-Indian Slave (searing reports of atrocities, especially to female
slaves, fuels emancipation case for colonial slaves). |
*Abolition |
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1831 |
Ashton Warner, d. 1831, Negro Slavery Described by a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Native of St. Vincent's. With an Appendix Containing the Testimony of Four Christian Ministers, Recently Returned from the Colonies, on the System of Slavery as It Now Exists, ed. Simon Strickland |
*Abolition |
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1832 |
English Reform and Abolition: Reform Bill (see 7 May and 7 June below) invigorates abolition. |
*Parlimentary Reform
*Abolition |
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1833 |
Abolition: Mary Anne Rawson's anti-slavery anthology, The Bow in the Cloud. |
*Abolition |
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July 31, 1833 |
Abolition of Colonial Slavery: The British Emancipation Act prohibits slavery in British Colonies, with provision for a 6-year "apprenticeship"; 800,000 slaves freed; owners compensated with over 20 million pounds. The Bill took effect in 1834. Unfortunately, the Act included a clause requiring slaves to serve an apprenticeship to their former owners, a clause which was first abolished in various colonies and then revoked entirely in the Immediate Abolition Act of 1838. |
*Colonialism
*Abolition |
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Aug 1, 1834 |
Emancipation Bill takes effect. |
*Abolition |
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1837 |
James Williams, A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, By James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica. |
*Abolition |
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June 1838 - July 1838 |
The requirement for emancipated slaves to serve an apprenticeship was abolished in various colonies of the West Indies. |
*Abolition |
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Aug 1, 1838 |
The Immediate Abolition Act passed in 1838 marks a victory for the abolition of slavery and slave trading throughout Britain and its colonies. |
*Abolition |