Slavery Timeline

Slavery timeline Slavery quick facts

·Slavery is as old as humanity.

·All societies in history have practiced one form or other of slavery.

·African societies kept slaves but these were never maltreated and were considered part of the household.

·The Transatlantic Slave Trade lasted over 400 years and was very brutal and degrading.

·It is estimated that Britain alone transported over 3.5 million Africans into the West Indies; to work on the plantations. Over 14 million Africans were transported.

·Millions of Africans lost their lives during this period.

·Indigenous Indians in the Caribbean Islands were wiped out when the slave traders took over their land.

·Slavery still exist today in the forms of debt bondage, child labour, people trafficking and unfair labour laws.

Slavery timeline 

5000 BC - 30 BC Egyptians used slaves for hard work	900BC - 146BC Ancient Greek society based on slave labour	753 BC - 476 AD The gladiators were Roman slaves	700 AD Arab Slave trade flourishing
1500AD Transatlantic Slave Trade begins	1700 AD Arab Slave Trade at its height.	1800 AD Arab Slave Trade takes a brutal turn as it becomes their economy mainstay	1807 AD The British abolish transatlantic slave trade
1833 AD Slavery abolished in British colonies	1861 AD American civil war abolishes slavery	1876 AD Europe abolishes slave trade	1900AD Modern day slavery
2007 AD Prison sentences for slavers in Mauritania	2011AD New York millionaire jailed for keeping two slaves	2012 AD Australian woman jailed for keeping slave worker	2012 AD London man jailed for keeping his daughter in-law as a slave