SLAVERY (GOOGLE IT!

)
A production of Ronnel Cruzado

THE BEGINNING OF SLAVERY

Started 2,000 years ago in Rome
One third of their population were slaves

ROME
one third

16TH CENTURY SLAVERY IN PORTUGAL

By the end of the 16th century,

the Portuguese had enslaved
25,000 Africans to work on
sugar plantations

17TH CENTURY SLAVERY IN BRITAIN

Around the end of the 17th century(the century that Mozart
was born in), British colonies made laws that slaves and
their children were properties of the owners and could
be traded (this is called chattel slavery)

Mozart

INTERESTING FACTOID:
Slave owners used chains and metal collars to prevent slaves from escaping

Chains

&

Metal Collars

19TH CENTURY SLAVERY IN THE UNITED

KINGDOM
After the United Kingdoms abolition of the slave trade in the 19 th century,
British ships were no longer allowed to transport African slaves

THE END OF SLAVERY IN THE U.S.A.

In 1863, the US government banned all slavery, and the Northern Union
States won the war in 1865

WHAT IS ONE MAJOR EXAMPLE OF THE

CHANGE SINCE THE TIME OF SLAVERY?
One major example of the change since the time of slavery is the election of
Barack Obama as president in 2008

Obama

TIMELINE OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVERY

1502- First reported African slaves are taken to the New World
1562- John Hawkins becomes the first British slave trader
1619- The first Africans are taken to the British North American colonies
1699- About 80% of the Caribbean population is enslaved Africans
1789- One of the first slave autobiographies, by Olaudah Equiano
1791- The British Parliament rejects William Wilber forces a bill to abolish the
slave trade
1793- US inventor Eli invents the cotton gin
1794- The United States prohibits new slave boats from being equipped in US
ports

TIMELINE OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE

TRADE [CONT.]
1807- Slavery and the transatlantic slave trade are abolished in Britain
1808- The United States bans the importation of new slaves
1819- Britain stations a naval squadron on the West African coast to patrol
against illegal slavers
1820- US law makes slave trading piracy, and therefore those found guilty
will face the DEATH PENALTY
1833- The British Parliament abolishes slavery in all its colonies
1839- The Amistad slave boat rebellion occurs
1849- Harriet Tubman escapes from the South to the North and establishes
the Underground Railroad

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TRADE [CONT.]
1858- William Yancey publicizes a confederacy of southern states
1860- Southern states start to secede (separate) from the northern Union
States
1861- The US Civil War begins
1863- The Emancipation Proclamation is issued by President Abraham
Lincoln, declaring that all slaves in the parts of the United States rebelling
against the Union are free
1865- Slavery is banned in the United States

CREDITS:
Spilsbury, Richard. Slavery and the Slave Trade. Illinois: Heineman Library,
2010. Print.