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29th November 1781: The Zong Massacre sees 132 Africans thrown overboard by the crew of a slave ship in an attempt to cash in their insurance policy

  • 29th November 2022
  • Tagged as: Abolition, Africa, Britain, Civil Rights, Jamaica, Netherlands, Ship, Slavery

The ship’s insurers refused to pay out for the deaths of the slaves and the ensuing court cases found that the killing of slaves was legal in some situations.

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9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free

  • 9th March 2022
  • Tagged as: Africa, America, Cuba, Law, Legal, Racism, Slavery, Supreme Court, United States

The long case eventually went before the Supreme Court who ruled that they had been unlawfully held and thus rebelled in a natural right to self-defense. The court set them free.

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6th March 1857: The US Supreme Court makes its ruling in the Dred Scott case

  • 6th March 2022
  • Tagged as: American Civil War, Civil Rights, Dred Scott, Emancipation, Equality, Law, Missouri, New York, Slavery, Supreme Court

Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of Missouri.

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24th February 1868: US President Andrew Johnson impeached for defying the Tenure of Office Act

  • 24th February 2022
  • Tagged as: Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Andrew Johnson, Democracy, Impeachment, Johnson, Law, Slavery, United States, USA

Having previously served as a senator and later military governor for the state of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson was chosen by Abraham Lincoln to be his running mate in the election of 1864.

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18th February 1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published in the United States

  • 18th February 2022
  • Tagged as: African-American, America, American Civil War, Antebellum, Books, Culture, Fiction, Literature, Novel, Slavery, United States

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, under his pen-name Mark Twain, had previously published the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which the character of Huckleberry “Huck” Finn is introduced for the first time.

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10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

  • 10th November 2021
  • Tagged as: Africa, Britain, Dr Livingstone, Exploration, Henry Morton Stanley, Livingstone, Nile, Queen Victoria, Scotland, Slavery, Zambezi

Henry Morton Stanley, a Welsh-American journalist and explorer, allegedly greeted the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone with the phrase, “Dr Livingston, I presume?”

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6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th President of the USA

  • 6th November 2021
  • Tagged as: Abraham Lincoln, America, American Civil War, Democracy, Election, Lincoln, President, Slavery, USA

Abraham Lincoln was elected barely five months before the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was assassinated less than a month before its end.

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22nd August 1791: Start of the Haitian Revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue

  • 22nd August 2021
  • Tagged as: Caribbean, Empire, France, French Empire, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Hispaniola, Napoleon, Saint-Domingue, Slavery

Slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola began the Haitian Revolution.

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1st August 1834: The Slavery Abolition Act comes in to force in the United Kingdom

  • 1st August 2021
  • Tagged as: Britain, Civil Rights, Economy, Law, Politics, Slavery, United Kingdom

On the 1st August 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act came into force in the United Kingdom, although it had received royal assent a year earlier.

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17th June 1885: Statue of Liberty arrives in New York from France

  • 17th June 2021
  • Tagged as: America, Art, France, New York, Slavery, Statue, USA
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On the 17th June 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbour on board the French steam ship Isère.

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