The Little Black Boy
1619- Slave trade officially began- first ship full of Africans bought as slaves arrives in Virginia
1672- Britain leads the way. Britain becomes one of the leading slave trade nations
1699- Eight in every ten people living in the Carribean are African slaves.
1730- Britain biggest slave trading country
1787- Group called Abolition of the slave trade formed. Main focus was to end the slave trade
1788- Law in place restricting number of slaves on a ship
1792- British government agrees in principle that slave trade should end
1807- End of the slave trade. Anyone found transporting slaves fined £100- a lot of money at that time, for every slave
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