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Slave Trade 1831 - 1981

A slave running away? His punishment is waiting to happen!

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• 1831—32 ‘Baptist War’, Jamaican slave revolt.
• 1834 Slavery replaced by apprenticeship in British colonies.
• 1838 Full freedom granted in British colonies.
• 1841 Quintuple Treaty: Britain, France, Russia, Prussia and Austria agree to suppress slave trade on high seas.
• 1842 Slavery abolished in Uruguay.
• 1848—49 Slavery abolished in French and Danish colonies.
• 1851 Slavery abolished in Ecuador.
• 1851 Slave trade ended to Brazil.
• 1854 Slavery abolished in Peru and Venezuela.
• 1861—65 American Civil War.
• 1862 Slave trade ended to Cuba.
• 1863 Slavery abolished in all Dutch colonies.

Flogging of Female slaves! A common punishment!

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• 1865 Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery in USA.
• 1871 Gradual emancipation begun in Brazil.
• 1873 Slavery abolished in Puerto Rico.
• 1886 Slavery abolished in Cuba.
• 1888 Slavery abolished in Brazil.
• ​1957 Slavery abolished in Saudi Arabia
• Last country, to officially abolish Slavery: Mauritania 1981
  

Slave Trade 1502 - 1776

Slave Trade 1777 - 1831

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