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
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