Timeline of Slavery
- 3000 BC - Slaves are brought with armies, public services and human development.
- 1700 BC - The bible states that the Hebrews takes prisoners in Egypt.
- 416 BC - All males were killed and women and children were taken into slavery by the Athenians.
- c. 700 - Zawila is built as a trading town for the Afrcian slave trade.
- c. 850 - Turkish slaves were bought to work for Baghdad's army.
- 1550 - African slaves are taken across the Atlantic under the authority of the Portuguese.
- 1655 - Jamaica turns into a major slave trade market in the West Indies under the control of the British.
- 1657 - Slaves are bought by the Dutch to do domestic and agricultural work in South Africa.
- 1770 - The triangular slave trade ships millions of slaves through the Middle Passage.
- 1791 to 1804 - The Haitian Revolution masscred millions of people in a fight to gain freedom for the black slaves.
- 1793 - Fugitives are recaptured by their owners in northern states due to the Fugitive Slave Laws.
- 1813 - Thousands of Serb women and children are sold into slavery by the Turks.
- 1830 - Slaves are freed in the north of America due to abolitionists in the sourthern states.
- 1836 - The shipping of slaves is banned on the coast of Angola by the Portuguese.
- 1839 - Many more slave revolts are sparked and some are even successful such as the case of the 'Amistad'.
- 1841 - 4 ships are sent down the Niger river to make anti slavery aggrements with surrounding kings.
- 1850 - Slave trade in Washington and Columbia is banned.
- 1850 - Slaves are banned in Brazil which is the second largest importer in the world.
- 1850 - Escapee, Harriet Tubman goes back to save other slaves from Maryland.
- 1862 - Abraham Lincoln releases the Emancipation Proclamation that frees slaves all over America.
- 1865 - The 13th Amendment made slavery illegal in the USA releasing millions of slaves.
- 1875 - Slaves are finally banned in the Portuguese empire.
- 1888 - Pedro II frees all slaves still in the industry in Brazil.
- 1948 - The United States adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it states 'No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.'