Timeline With Attitude from a Slaves Perspective By GordieR12 Period: 1650 to 1789 What's Worth Fighting For? 1699 Rise of Consumerism Due to Slave Trade 1700 Bulk of the Slave Trade 1740 Slave Code of South Carolina, Article 36. 1744 Calico Acts 1756 The Seven Years War 1761 Minavavana Addressing Trader Alexander Henry 1764 Spinning Jenny 1774 The Quebec Act 1775 Thomas Paine Influential Writings About Slavery 1786 Olaudah Equiano Abolitionist Movement