AFRICAN SLAVES THROWN OVERBOARD ATLANTIC OCEAN FREEGroups of escaped slaves in the mountains repel British forces and a treaty in 1739 confirms their free status.ġ760: Rebellions by enslaved people in Jamaica last for several months and claim many lives.ġ765: Granville Sharp begins legal challenges to the British slave trade with the case of Jonathan Strong.ġ772: John Woolman, an American Quaker and early anti-slavery campaigner comes to England to gather support from English Quakers.ġ772: James Somerset case in London. The company is financed by royal, aristocratic and commercial capital.ġ698: The Royal African Company monopoly ends, opening the trade to private traders from Bristol and Liverpool.ġ713: Under the Treaty of Utrecht following the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain is awarded the 'Asiento' or sole right to import an unlimited number of enslaved people to the Spanish Caribbean colonies for 30 years.ġ730: First Maroon War in the British colony of Jamaica. He sells them to the Spanish in exchange for pearls, hides, sugar and ginger.ġ618: King James I creates The Company of Adventurers of London Trading into the Parts of Africa.ġ672: The Royal African Company is formed in order to regulate the English slave trade, with a legal monopoly over the 2,500 miles of African coast from the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope. A written account speaks of "taule and strong men", who "coulde well agree with our meates and drynkes."ġ562-9: John Hawkins becomes the first Englishman definitely known to have traded in Africans, making three voyages to Sierra Leone and transporting a total of 1,200 inhabitants to Hispaniola and St Domingue (Dominican Republic and Haiti). They are to help the English break the monopoly that the Portuguese have over the African trade in gold, ivory and pepper. 1555: A group of Africans (from present day Ghana) are brought to England by John Lok, a London merchant, to learn English so that they can act as interpreters in their homelands.
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