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| 1638 |
| | | The French build a trading station on the estuary of the Senegal river in west Africa | |
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| 1652 |
| | | Jan van Riebeeck establishes a Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope | |
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| 1657 |
| | | The Dutch in South Africa purchase slaves to do domestic and agricultural work | |
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| 1661 |
| | | The British establish Fort James on an island in the Gambia river | |
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| 1698 |
| | | A fleet from Oman evicts the Portuguese from Mombasa and Zanzibar | |
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| c. 1770 |
| | | The triangular trade, controlled from Liverpool, ships millions of Africans across the Atlantic as slaves | |
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| c. 1775 |
| | | Dutch nomads, pressing far north from Cape Town, become known as the Trekboers | |
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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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| c. 1795 |
| | | Dutch Boers begin calling themselves Afrikaners, to emphasize that Africa is their native land | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Mungo Park sets off on his first expedition to explore the Niger on behalf of the African Association | |
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