Timeline and Terms

Events

Africans sold in Virginia
Anti-slavery protest in America
Asiento
Atlantic slave trade
Blacks excluded from Virginia militia
Charter of Company of Royal Adventurers
Circular Atlantic Trade
Crispus Attucks escaped
Dutch established slave trade
Dutch West India Company reorganized
End of slavery ban in Georgia
Fall of Constantinople
First group manumission in North America
French and Indian War
Law classifying slaves as real estate repealed
Massachusetts statutory recognition of slavery
Modern slave trade began
Negro Conspiracy of 1741
New England entered slave trade
Observations on the Inslaving, Importing, and Purchasing of Negroes
Quaker ban on slave trade
Salem petition against slave importation
Slave conspiracy in American colonies
Slave revolt in New York City
Slave-trading voyages of Sir John Hawkins
Slaves offered freedom in Spanish Florida
Stono Rebellion
Virginia Slave Code

People

Absalom Jones
Anthony Benezet
Denmark Vesey
Jupiter Hammon
Venture Smith

Places

Georgia

Organizations

Dutch West India Company
gang system
maroons
Quakers
task system
trash gangs