Middle Passage: mortality, shipboard conditions, and reform efforts (1600–1850)

1. English Royal African Company chartered

   Jan 1, 1672Labels: Royal African, West Africa, English monopoly

   • Britannica
   • BlackPast

2. French Code Noir issued for colonies

   Jan 1, 1685Labels: Code Noir, French colonies, colonial law

   • Britannica
   • EHNE

3. Somerset v Stewart limits forced removal

   Jun 22, 1772Labels: Somerset v, British courts, James Somerset

   • English Heritage
   • Britannica

4. Zong massacre exposes lethal shipboard logic

   Nov 29, 1781Labels: Zong, British slave, mass killing

   • Britannica

5. Dolben’s Act regulates crowding on British ships

   Aug 1, 1788Labels: Dolben's Act, British Parliament, slave-ship regulation

   • World History Commons
   • UK Legislation

6. Brookes diagram published as abolitionist evidence

   Dec 1, 1788Labels: Brookes diagram, abolitionists, slave ship

   • History Archives
   • Abolition Seminar

7. Equiano’s narrative documents Middle Passage suffering

   Jan 1, 1789Labels: Olaudah Equiano, autobiography, Middle Passage

   • Britannica
   • Equiano Narrative

8. UK Parliament debates immediate abolition of slave trade

   Mar 6, 1807Labels: UK Parliament, abolition debates, British politicians

   • Hansard
   • UK Parliament

9. British Slave Trade Act enacted and commenced

   May 1, 1807Labels: Slave Trade, British law, parliamentary act

   • UK Parliament
   • Slave Trade Act

10. United States bans slave importation

    Jan 1, 1808Labels: United States, importation ban, U S

    • Congress gov
    • Am Battlefield

11. Amistad revolt leads to U.S. Supreme Court decision

    Mar 9, 1841Labels: Amistad, U S, revolt

    • Oyez
    • Britannica

12. Brazil’s Queirós Law intensifies end of Atlantic crossings

    Sep 4, 1850Labels: Queir s, Brazil, anti-slave-trade

    • Britannica
    • Eus bio Law