Transatlantic Slave Trade timeline

1441 AD Portuguese ships transport the first slaves from West Africa	1448 AD Portuguese set up the first slave trading post in Africa	1502 AD The Spanish transport the first African slaves  to American plantations	1562 AD John Hawkins becomes England first slave trader
1570s AD African slaves taken to Brazil by the Portuguese	1683 AD Most indigenous Caribbean have been wiped out	1780s AD People begin to campaign against the slave trade	1791 AD Slaves in Haiti revolt and defeat British and Spanish armies
1807 AD Britain abolishes the slave trade	1833 AD Slave trade abolished in British colonies	1861 AD Slave trade abolished in America	1876 AD The rest of Europe abolish slave trade