Slavery & Abolition
Explore Slavery & Abolition on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Atlantic slave trade (1500)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Britain abolishes the slave trade (1807)
- 13th Amendment abolishes slavery in US (1865)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- American Civil War (1861)
- First transatlantic slave voyage (1526)
- Frederick Douglass (1818)
- William Wilberforce (1759)
- Portugal begins the African slave trade (1444)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Abolition of slavery in Brazil (1888)
- Toussaint Louverture (1743)
- Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804)
- Sugar plantations in the Caribbean (1640)
- Harriet Tubman (1822)
- Arab slave trade (700)
- John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
- Olaudah Equiano (1745)
- Underground Railroad (1810)
- Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded (1787)
- Spartacus slave revolt (73 BCE)
- Dred Scott decision (1857)
- Jim Crow era (1896)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
- Somerset case (1772)
- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (1850)
- Black soldiers join the Union army (1863)
- French abolition of slavery (1794) (1794)