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Transatlantic slave voyages from West Africa to the Americas (c. 1510–1867)

Transatlantic slave voyages from West Africa to the Americas (c. 1510–1867)

  1. Spain authorizes enslaved Africans to Hispaniola

    Labels: Spain, Hispaniola

  2. Asiento expands large-scale slave imports

    Labels: Charles I, Asiento

  3. Early recorded slave revolt on Hispaniola

    Labels: Santo Domingo, Slave revolt

  4. John Hawkins launches English slave-trading voyage

    Labels: John Hawkins, England

  5. Enslaved Africans arrive at Point Comfort, Virginia

    Labels: Point Comfort, White Lion

  7. Royal African Company re-chartered and expands trafficking

    Labels: Royal African, West Africa

  8. Stono Rebellion sparks harsher slave codes in Carolina

    Labels: Stono Rebellion, South Carolina

  9. Zong massacre exposes brutal economics of the Middle Passage

    Labels: Zong, British slave

  10. United Kingdom abolishes slave trading in its empire

    Labels: United Kingdom, Slave Trade

  11. United States bans importation of enslaved people

    Labels: United States, Importation Act

  12. Spain agrees to abolish its slave trade by 1820

    Labels: Spain, Anglo-Spanish treaty

  13. Brazil outlaws Atlantic slave trading through Queirós Law

    Labels: Brazil, Queir s

  14. Clotilda lands captives in Alabama, a late illegal voyage

    Labels: Clotilda, Africatown

  15. SlaveVoyages database consolidates records through 1867

    Labels: SlaveVoyages, Database