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Period: Oct 4, 1500 to
Middle passage
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Oct 4, 1562
Sir John Hawkins became the first Englishman to carry a cargo of African slaves to the New World.
His voyage had such gains for example queen elizibeth had publicly denounced slave-trading voyages and secretly invested heavily in Hawkins's later slaving expeditions. Sir Francis Drake which is Hawkins's cousin, commanded one of these ships. -
spain and portugal
300,000 africans labored throughout spanish america on plantations and in gold/silver mines. -
slavery in south carolina
africans made up the majority of the population in south carolina. -
slavery in the chesapeake
women made up 1/3 of the slave population in maryland and the population began to increase naturally. -
the stono rebellion of 1739
Over 100 south carolina slaves had escaped to spanish florida and formed a free black militia company at st. augustine. -
slavery in the chespeake
slaves made up 40% of population in parts of chesapeake-over 75% were american born. -
Crispus Attucks Escapes from framingham
Crispus was a run away slave who escaped in 1750 at the age of twenty seven from Framingham. Attucks’s father was an african amerian his mother was Indian. His master described him as a mulatto man who was about 27 years old and 6 feet 2 inches in height. -
French and Indian war began
The fulll fledged war started from competing British and French efforts to handel the Ohio River valley and its profitable fur trade that came along with it. In both 1754 and 1755 France and their Indian alliance beat the Virginian troops and British troops in this region and violantly attacked the west frontier of the British colonies. -
Britain undertooke a vigorous and expensive military effort
This military effort had pushed France to be removed from North America. Britain had taken Canada from France and Florida from Spain. Spain had then got New Orleans and the entire French province of Louisiana in central North America. -
African Americans in the Revolutionary Debate
George Washington who was a very powerful slaveholders spoke of liberty, natural rights, and the dislikes of enslavement, African Americans listened to washington speak of this. -
England became the first nation to abolish the African slave trade
This meant enlgand abolished slaves being traded all together this ment overseas as well. But this did not mean that slavery was abolished. England still had slaves after slave trade was abolished and continued to use slaves for a while after. -
The demand for africans
by the end of the slave trade 9.5 african americans were imported to the americas.
