Slavery Timeline 1701-1800

WARNING! Page Under Construction! Some useful information may be available, but there are large gaps

This page will, over time, develop into a detailed timeline of the main historical, literary, and cultural events connected with British slavery, abolition, and emancipation between 1701 and 1800. It also includes references to the most significant events taking place outside of the British zone of influence. In the eighteenth century, an informal British Empire was established in competition with the other major European powers and Britain became the foremost slave-trading nation. By the end of the century, however, doubts about slavery at home and the loss of the North American colonies had significantly altered both Britain's imperial and her slave-trading roles. Click on a date in the list below, or scroll down the page, for information. Links are given to pages on this website only. For my sources and for further reading, look at the page Further Reading: Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation.

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1701

1725

1729

• According to Joseph Jekyll, his biographer, Ignatius Sancho is born aboard a ship in mid-Atlantic.

1750

1755

• By his own account, Olaudah Equiano is born in present-day Nigeria.

1775

1780

• 14 December 1780: Ignatius Sancho dies at his home and shop in Charles Street, Westminster

1782

• August 1782. Publication of The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

1789

• 24 March 1789: Publication of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African.
  
• 12 May 1789: William Wilberforce delivers first major abolition speech before the House of Commons.

1797

• 31 March 1797: Olaudah Equiano dies at his home in Cambridgeshire.

1800

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* This page last updated 9 April 2003 *

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