slave trade journey in the uk

By 17khanj@ctk.lancs.sch.uk
  • 1562

    First slaving expedition by John Hawkins

  • Africans carry Africans to the Americas

  • Birth of John Newton

  • birth of William Cowper

  • Birth of Granville Sharp

  • Birth of Toussaint Louverture

  • Birth of Olaudah Equiano

  • Birth of William Wilberforce

  • Birth of Thomas Clarkson

  • Birth of Elizabeth Heyrick

  • Granville Sharp won an historic ruling in the Somerset case which held that no slave could be forcibly removed from Britain

  • Slavery made illegal in Scotland.

  • Thomas Clarkson, publishes A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of its Abolition

  • John Newton publishes Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade

  • Olaudah Equiano publishes The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African

  • The play The Benevolent Planters is published.

  • The play The Benevolent Planters is published.