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Events relating to trade
Lincoln becomes the Republican presidential candidate, benefiting from a Democratic party split on the issue of slavery
Lagos, on the coast of Nigeria, is annexed as a British colony when the royal family prove unable or unwilling to end the slave trade
Lincoln declares in his Emancipation Proclamation that all slaves in any state opposing the Union government 'are and henceforward shall be free'
Lincoln visits the Confederate capital at Richmond and is greeted by a jubilant crowd of freed slaves
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits slavery or any 'involuntary servitude' in the USA
The British consul in Zanzibar persuades the sultan to end the island's notorious slave trade
Slavery is finally made illegal in the Portuguese empire
Scottish missionaries establish Blantyre (named after Livingstone's birthplace) as a centre from which to fight slavery
The Ten Years' War ends in Cuba, with Spain promising extensive reforms including the abolition of slavery
George Goldie and British traders on the Niger form the United African Company (later the Royal Niger Company) to consolidate their interests
Booker T. Washington, freed at the end of the Civil War, heads a college in the south, in Tuskegee, Alabama, to educate former slaves
The emperor Pedro II frees all the remaining slaves in Brazil without compensating their owners
Britain cedes the tiny island of Heligoland to Germany in return for vast areas of Africa
The Independent Labour Party, later changing its name to the Labour Party, is founded in Britain by the trade unionist Keir Hardie
Stephen Wheeler is left as the last of the lightermen to use the St Helena Boathouses for coal and freight, and increasingly switches the focus of his business to the trade of boat-hiring.
Margaret Bondfield is the first woman to be chairman of Britain's Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress calls off Britain's general strike after nine days
George Formby makes the first records featuring what becomes his trademark, the ukulele
In The Fur Trade in Canada Harold Innis traces the economic development linking the trade and the nation
De Valera withholds farmers' annuities from Britain, provoking British tariffs and a trade war
A mass demonstration by trade unions in Buenos Aires results in the release of Perón
EFTA (European Free Trade Association) brings together the European nations outside the EEC
Construction work begins on the twin towers for the World Trade Center in New York, designed by US architect Minoru Yamasaki
A trade union, Solidarnośc (Solidarity), is formed by strikers in the Gdansk shipyard in Poland
Lech Walesa is elected chairman of the newly formed Polish trade union movement Solidarnośc (Solidarity)
