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| 1787 |
| | The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade is founded in London, with a strong Quaker influence | |
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| 1787 |
| | A British ship lands a party of freed slaves as the first modern settlers in Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa | |
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| 1789 |
| | The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a slave captured as a child in Africa, becomes a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic | |
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| 1793 |
| | The US Congress passes Fugitive Slave Laws, enabling southern slave owners to reclaim escaped slaves in northern states | |
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| 1807 |
| | Legislation abolishing the slave trade is passed in both Britain and America | |
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| 1808 |
| | The British government uses Freetown, in Sierra Leone, as a base in the fight against the slave trade | |
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| 1813 |
| | The Turks recapture Belgrade and sell thousands of Serb women and children into slavery | |
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| 1816 |
| | Robert Finley, a US anti-slavery campaigner, founds the American Colonization Society to settle freed slaves in Africa | |
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| 1816 |
| | The British establish Bathurst (now Banjul) at the mouth of the Gambia as a base against the slave trade | |
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| 1820 |
| | The Missouri Compromise, admitting Maine and Missouri to the union, keeps the balance between 'free' and 'slave' states in the US senate | |
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