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Slave trade: International

1492: Columbus leads the way: Enslavement, slaughter, and land theft
1526: First Africans likely brought as slaves to North America revolt
1579: Africans win freedom in first mass uprising
1619: First enslaved Africans brought to Virginia
1638: Enslaver orders rape to "breed slave stock"
1641: Massachusetts gives legal green light to slavery
1644-1645: First slaving venture helps legitimize bondage in Massachusetts
1652: Rhode Island slavery ban is not enforced
1676: Executions portend broad assault on Indigenous peoples
1676: Colonists trade Native captives for enslaved Africans
1688: Anti-slavery petition divides Quakers
1698: Colonial merchants gain right to trade Africans
1700: Puritans debate: Is slavery Christian?
1700: Isaac Royall: A dynasty built on slavery
1717: Shipwreck sheds light on piracy-slavery links
1737: Benjamin Lay: Radical Quaker voice for abolition
1739-1740: Native Americans use courts to win freedom
1740-1742: Slave trader's hall hosts abolitionist rallies
1743: Mutiny, chocolate, and racial capitalism
1761: Phillis Wheatley Peters: Genius poet arrives on slave ship
1764: Tax law protest tied to growing rum industry
1764: Colleges reckon with blood money, history
1765: Mass deaths are turning point for slave trader
1771: Quaker abolitionist educates, inspires others
1771: Governor rebuffs proposed ban on slave imports
1779: In New Hampshire, 20 enslaved Africans petition for freedom
1780-1787: Thousands starve after food imports cut
1780: Black residents help win first abolition law
1781: New Hampshire bans slavery, but full rights denied
1784: Suicides as protest revive abolitionist group
1787: Slave states boost their power with "three-fifths" pact
1788: Massachusetts bans slave trades, expels "outsiders"
1790: Opium king bankrolls hospitals, museums
1791: Prominent slave trader evades murder charges
1794: Slave trade law fails to curb trafficking
1798: Ivory and slavery: The deadly cost of a pianoforte
1803: Igbo Landing: Mass suicide is act of resistance
1807: Slave trade banned after campaign by activists
1807: Smugglers deft slave import ban
1814: Cotton enriches businessmen, North and South
1820: Maine becomes a free state in deal over slavery
1820: Maine slave trader first to be executed
1833: Domestic slave trade: over one million sent south
1833: Britain frees 800,000, compensates enslavers
1839-1841: Revolts cast spotlight on illegal slave trade
1845: Frances Ellen Watkins: Poet, anti-slavery activist
1849: Mexico: Freedom for escapees at a price
1855: U.S. traders transport enslaved Chinese to Brazil
1858: Illegal slave ship brings 400 African captives
1860: Last known slave ship carries over 100 captive Africans
1860: New schooner linked to illegal slave trade circle
1865: Planters mull plan to import Chinese laborers

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