ACS Timeline

Question 1

CE 700

Answer 1

Zanzibar becomes main trading post in East African trade

Question 2

1444

Answer 2

Public sale of West African peoples begins in Portugal

Question 3

1482

Answer 3

Portugal builds first trading post in West Africa

Question 4

1518

Answer 4

The first direct shipment of enslaved Africans arrives in the Americas

Question 5

1528

Answer 5

Spain issues contracts for trade in African peoples

Question 6

1562

Answer 6

Britain joins trade in African peoples

Question 7

1619

Answer 7

The Netherlands transports first enslaved Africans to North America

Question 8

1640

Answer 8

Britain transports first enslaved Africans to Caribbean sugar Plantations

Question 9

1700

Answer 9

Britain dominates global trade in African peoples

Question 10

1787

Answer 10

The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded in Britain

Question 11

1807

Answer 11

Britain abolishes trade in African peoples

Question 12

1808

Answer 12

United States Abolishes trade in African peoples

Question 12

1833

Answer 12

Slavery abolished throughout the British empire

Question 13

1865

Answer 13

Slavery abolished in the United states