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First slaving expedition John Hawkins (1562)

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First slaving expedition John Hawkins (1562)

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First of three expeditions of the first known English slave trader.

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The Royal African Company is formed (1672)

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The Royal African Company is formed (1672)

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The Royal African Company overlooked the British trade.
It gained monopoly of the English gold and slave trade.

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Britain is awarded the  'Asiento' (1713)

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Britain is awarded the  'Asiento' (1713)

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Following the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain is awarded the 'Asiento', the sole right to import an unlimited number of enslaved people to the Spanish Caribbean colonies.

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First war in the British colony Jamaica. Groups of escaped slaves in the mountains repel British forces.

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Granville Sharp begins legal charges against British slave trade (1765)

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Granville Sharp begins legal charges against British slave trade (1765)

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Granville Sharp befriended a slave named Jonathan Strong, who had been abused by his owner. Sharp took a succesful case to the lord mayor and freed Jonathan. Sharp then devoted his time to forcing a definitive legal ruling on the question of whether a slave could be compelled to leave Britain.

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The ruling by lord Chief Justice William Mansfield (1772)

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The ruling by lord Chief Justice William Mansfield (1772)

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This concluded that slaves could not be forced back to their own land after they entered Britain.

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British quakers form a committee against slavery/slave trade (1783)

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British quakers form a committee against slavery/slave trade (1783)

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The people who fought for peace and equality in that time formed a committee to go against slavery.

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There was a succesful insurrection of slaves on St Domingue. It began the revolt against slave trading in many other colonies. It is now known as Haiti.

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The British Maroons became free of ownership, thus being freed from slavery. The war had proven to be very costly for the island and ruined a lot of plantations and estates.

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Haiti became the first independent black state outside of Africa.

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The act made it illegal to engage in slave trade throughout the British collonies.

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This act gives all enslaved people in the Caribbean their freedom although some other British territories have to wait longer. However, ex-slaves in the Caribbean are forced to undertake a period of apprenticeship which means that slavery is not fully abolished in practice until 1838.