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  1. 1888. Brazil formally abolishes slavery on May 13. Timeline of significant events related to the transatlantic slave trade. Beginning about 1500, millions of Black Africans were taken from their homes and sold into slavery in the New World. Humanitarian efforts finally brought an end to the transatlantic slave trade in the second half of the ...

  2. Jun 19, 2019 · A comprehensive overview of the rise, sugar years, abolition movement, and ending of the trans-Atlantic slave trade from 1441 to 1865. Learn about the key events, players, and consequences of this historical phenomenon that shaped the Americas and the world.

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  3. The Atlantic slave trade exportation of slaves to Cuba was illegal by 1820; however, Cuba continued to import enslaved Africans from Africa until slavery was abolished in 1886. After the abolition of the slave trade to the United States and British colonies in 1807, Florida imported enslaved Africans from Cuba, many landing in Amelia Island.

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  5. Sep 16, 2021 · This hundred years—from approximately 1725 to 1825—is also the high-water mark of the slave trade, as Europeans send more than 7.2 million people to forced labor, disease, and death in the New ...

  6. 1804: St Domingue declared the Republic of Haiti, the first independent black state outside of Africa. 1807: The Act to Abolish the Transatlantic Slave Trade is passed in Parliament. 1833: Slavery Abolition Act is passed in Parliament, taking effect in 1834. This act gives all enslaved people in the Caribbean their freedom although some other ...

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