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Slave Coast. 17-18C. Parts of Nigeria, Togo, Dahomey.
Abolition Act. 1833. Ends slavery in British Empire.
Abolitionists. 1774-1868. US anti-slavery party. Merged into Republicans. Radical Republicans.
Aesop. Legendary/6C BC. Greek slave/fablist. Fox and Grapes. Hare andTortoise.
American Civil War. 1861-5. Abolitionist North defeats slave-owning South. Britain and France support South, Russia supports North. Union. Confederacy.
Amistad Affair. 1841. Slaves mutiny on Spanish ship. Sail to US. Declared free by US court.
Androcles. Roman slave, saved by a lion.
Anthony, Susan B. 1820-1906. US temperence, anti-slavery suffragette.
Antigua. Carib. 1493 Columbus discovers. 1632 English settle. 18C slave trade. 1958-62 West Indies Federation. 1967 Self-government. 1981 Independent +Barbuda.
Ashanti Empire. 17-19C Ghana kingdom. Supplied slaves to traders.
Asiento. 1517-1750. Monopoly contracts to supply slaves to Spanish colonies.
Barbary Piracy. 1518-1830. G. Washington pays $1M to free enslaved seamen 1796. US attacks Tripoli 1815. French sieze Algiers, 1830.
Barnburners. 1842-54. US radical anti-slavery Democrats vs Hunkers.
Belize. 4-9C Maya. 17C Buccaneers. 17C English settle. 17,18C Slaves brought. 1862 Colony =British Honduras. 1964 Self-government. 1973 =Belize. 1981 Independent.
Berlin Conference. 1884. Bismarck called 15 nations to resolve African issues. Congo granted independence. Slavery suppressed.
Bermuda. 1511 Spain discovers. 1609 Shipwrecked British settle, inpiring Tempest. 1617-1834 Slavery. 1968 Autonomous British Colony. 1995 Referendum rejects independence.
Black Code. 1685. Louis XIV edict on treatment of slaves in French colonies.
Black Codes. 1865-6. Strict US local laws to control blacks based on slave codes. Freedmen. Jim Crow.
Bleeding Kansas. 1854-59. Antislavery vs Slavery advocates for control of Kansas. Wyandotte Constitution.
Brown, John. 1800-59. US slavery abolitionist. Harper’s Ferry. Hung.
Buchenwald. 1937-45. Nazi concentration camp. Medical research, slave labour. 52,500 dead.
Cameroon. 1472 Portugal explores. 16-19C Slave source. 1884 Germany. 1916 France(E)/Britain(W). 1960 Independent. 1961 NW to Nigeria; SW =Cameroon Republic.
Cape Verde. 1455 Portugal disc, settle w slaves. 1975 Independent rep.
Cartwright, John. 1740-1824. English reformer for universal male suffrage, abolition of slavery.
Carver, George W. 1864-1943. US agriculturalist. Former slave.