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| 1816 |
| | The British establish Bathurst (now Banjul) at the mouth of the Gambia as a base against the slave trade | |
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| 1820 |
| | The Missouri Compromise, admitting Maine and Missouri to the union, keeps the balance between 'free' and 'slave' states in the US senate | |
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| 1821 |
| | The American Colonization Society buys the area later known as Liberia to settle freed slaves | |
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| 1822 |
| | The first shipload of freed slaves reaches Cape Mesurado (in the region soon called Liberia) from the USA | |
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| c. 1830 |
| | A network of undercover abolitionists in the southern states of America help slaves escape to freedom in the north | |
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| 1831 |
| | Nat Turner leads a revolt by fellow slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, killing 59 whites and provoking more repressive legislation | |
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| 1833 |
| | Under the leadership of William Lloyd Garrison a society is formed in the USA calling for the immediate abolition of slavery | |
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| 1836 |
| | Sarah and Angelina Grimké join the abolitionist crusade, each publishing a powerful anti-slavery pamphlet in the same year | |
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| 1836 |
| | The Portuguese ban the shipping of slaves from the coast of Angola | |
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| 1839 |
| | Mutiny by slaves on a Spanish vessel leads two years later to a significant abolitionist victory in the Amistad case | |
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