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John Lok brings a group of African men from current Ghana to England to teach them English and make them interpretors. This project was made to aim to stop the Portugese monopoly of gold and other goods in Africa

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John Hawkins is first known Englishman pioneer who exported African men from Sierra Leone to Dominican Republic and Haiti to trade them to the Spanish for pearls, sugar, ginger and hides

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Portugese took african slaves to american colonies

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King James I creates The Company of Adventurers of London Trading into the Parts of Africa. This company was a private joint stock company which allowed trading in Africa for profit. King James I granted a 31-year long monopoly of the exportation of goods from West Africa

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20 Africans arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, where they were purchased from Dutch privateers to aid in the English colony’s lucrative, labor-intensive cultivation of tobacco. As profits piled up and slavery spread through the American colonies, the British crown decided to exert control over the slave trade to the colonies (and the wealth it generated)

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Dutch merchants introduced sugar to Barbados and showed Barbadian planters how to grow and process sugarcane. They brought with them the knowledge and technology they had learnt from Brazilian plantations which they seized from the Portuguese in 1630. The Dutch supplied Barbadian planters with Africans, introduced plantation slavery and sold the sugar in Holland. Sugar was an important commodity and Barbados rapidly converted from an English style of agriculture with small farms growing crops, cotton and tobacco

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Britain takes Jamaica from Spain. Sugar exports from Jamaica will enrich British owners

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According to the Navigation Act , only English-owned ships could enter colonial ports. That same year, King Charles II granted a charter to the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa. Led by the king’s younger brother James, the Duke of York (later King James II), this group had a monopoly on British trade with West Africa, including gold, silver and slaves.

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the company collapse due to debts caused by the war between England and the Netherlands

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The Company of Adventurers of London Trading into the Parts of Africa changes name into The Royal African Company. It wad set up by the Stuart family and the City of London to regulate the exportacion of gold from the African coast. The company is financed by royal, aristocratic and commercial capital.

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the company transported an average of 5,000 slaves per year, most of which were shipped to colonies in the Caribbean and Virginia. Thousands of slaves arrived in the New World with the company’s initials branded on their chests.

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James II’s deprived the company of its governor and its best means of enforcing its monopoly

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After public deliberationsnthroughout the 169Os, Parliament passed the Africa Trade Act, which opened the slave trade to all English citizens for a period of thirteen years on payment of a percentage of duty on imports and exports. Independent slave traders became known as separate traders. These separate traders prevented the company from gaining parliamentary recognition for its monopoly and therefore, he Royal African Company monopoly ends, opening the trade to private traders from Bristol and Liverpool.

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the price of a single slave was of £3-worth of traded goods.

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the 1698 act expired, opening up the slave trade to all

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Under the Treaty of Utrecht following the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain is awarded the 'Asiento' or sole right to import an unlimited number of enslaved people to the Spanish Caribbean colonies for 30 years.

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

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Rebellions by enslaved people in Jamaica last for several months and claim many lives.

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Granville Sharp (one of the first British campaigners for the abolition of the slave tade) begins legal challenges to the British slave trade with the case of Jonathan Strong

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John Woolman, an American Quaker and early anti-slavery campaigner comes to England to gather support from English Quakers.
James Somerset case in London. Chief Justice Lord Mansfield rules that enslaved people in England cannot be forced to return to the West Indies.

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British Quakers form a committee against slavery and the slave trade.

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The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the African Slave Trade is founded in London.

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Rebellion by enslaved people in St Domingue triggers the Haitian Revolution, led by Toussaint L'Ouverture

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Second Maroon War in Jamaica; Fedon's Rebellion in Grenada.

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St Domingue declared the Republic of Haiti, the first independent black state outside of Africa

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The Act to Abolish the Transatlantic Slave Trade is passed in Parliament.

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Enslaved people in the Caribbean gain their freedom. However, after emancipation, a system of apprenticeship was established.

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The system of apprenticeship was abolished by the various colonial assemblies after pressure from the British public, completing the process of emancipation.