Atlantic slave trade and demographic impact in West Africa (1500–1900)

1. Portuguese build Elmina Castle on Gold Coast

   Jan 1, 1482Labels: Elmina Castle, Portugal, Gold Coast

   • Britannica
   • GMMB

2. Slave trade begins to the Caribbean

   Jan 1, 1520Labels: Caribbean, Iberian Empires

   • Britannica
   • Britannica

3. Kongo’s King Afonso I protests depopulation

   Jan 1, 1526Labels: Afonso I, Kingdom of

   • DW

4. Slave exports to Brazil expand from the 1570s

   Jan 1, 1570Labels: Brazil, Sugar Plantations

   • Britannica

5. Dutch enter the trade and volumes increase

   Jan 1, 1625Labels: Dutch West, Netherlands

   • Britannica

6. Britain gains asiento monopoly in Spanish America

   Jan 1, 1713Labels: Asiento, Great Britain

   • Britannica
   • NYPL

7. Cumulative trade reaches millions by the late 1700s

   Jan 1, 1790Labels: Transatlantic Totals

   • SlaveVoyages
   • NEH

8. Britain abolishes its slave trade by statute

   Mar 25, 1807Labels: Slave Trade, United Kingdom

   • UK Parliament
   • Hansard

9. West Africa Squadron begins coastal suppression patrols

   Jan 1, 1808Labels: West Africa, Royal Navy

   • West Africa Sq
   • Blockade

10. U.S. bans slave importation, shifting routes and smuggling

    Jan 1, 1808Labels: United States, Importation Ban

    • Congress gov
    • Wikipedia

11. Brazil criminalizes the slave trade in 1850

    Sep 4, 1850Labels: Queir s, Brazil

    • Britannica
    • Wikipedia

12. Trade’s Atlantic phase declines; demographic legacies persist

    Jan 1, 1900Labels: Demographic Legacies

    • Harvard DASH
    • Springer