SLAVERY (GOOGLE IT!) A production of Ronnel Cruzado

THE BEGINNING OF SLAVERY

• Started 2,000 years ago in Rome

• One third of their population were slaves

ROME

one third

16TH CENTURY SLAVERY IN PORTUGAL

•By the end of the 16th century, the Portuguese had enslaved 25,000 Africans to work on sugar plantations

17TH CENTURY SLAVERY IN BRITAIN

• Around the end of the 17th century(the century that Mozart was born in), British colonies made laws that slaves and their children were properties of the owners and could be traded (this is called chattel slavery)

Mozart

INTERESTING FACTOID:

• Slave owners used chains and metal collars to prevent slaves from escaping

Chains & Metal Collars

19TH CENTURY SLAVERY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

• After the United Kingdom’s abolition of the slave trade in the 19th century, British ships were no longer allowed to transport African slaves

THE END OF SLAVERY IN THE U.S.A.

• In 1863, the US government banned all slavery, and the Northern Union States won the war in 1865

WHAT IS ONE MAJOR EXAMPLE OF THE CHANGE SINCE THE TIME OF SLAVERY?

• One major example of the change since the time of slavery is the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008

Obama

TIMELINE OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVERY

• 1502- First reported African slaves are taken to the New World

• 1562- John Hawkins becomes the first British slave trader

• 1619- The first Africans are taken to the British North American colonies

• 1699- About 80% of the Caribbean population is enslaved Africans

• 1789- One of the first slave autobiographies, by Olaudah Equiano

• 1791- The British Parliament rejects William Wilber forces a bill to abolish the slave trade

• 1793- US inventor Eli invents the cotton gin

• 1794- The United States prohibits new slave boats from being equipped in US ports

TIMELINE OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE [CONT.]

• 1807- Slavery and the transatlantic slave trade are abolished in Britain

• 1808- The United States bans the importation of new slaves

• 1819- Britain stations a naval squadron on the West African coast to patrol against illegal slavers

• 1820- US law makes slave trading piracy, and therefore those found guilty will face the DEATH PENALTY

• 1833- The British Parliament abolishes slavery in all its colonies

• 1839- The Amistad slave boat rebellion occurs

• 1849- Harriet Tubman escapes from the South to the North and establishes the Underground Railroad

TIMELINE OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE [CONT.]

• 1858- William Yancey publicizes a confederacy of southern states

• 1860- Southern states start to secede (separate) from the northern Union States

• 1861- The US Civil War begins

• 1863- The Emancipation Proclamation is issued by President Abraham Lincoln, declaring that all slaves in the parts of the United States rebelling against the Union are free

• 1865- Slavery is banned in the United States

CREDITS:

• Spilsbury, Richard. Slavery and the Slave Trade. Illinois: Heineman Library, 2010. Print.