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| 1857 |
| | | An ultra-reactionary Supreme Court judgement in the Dred Scott case heightens US tensions over slavery | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Abraham Linclon comes to national prominence through his debates on slavery with Stephen Douglas, his rival for an Illinois seat in the Senate | |
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| 1859 |
| | | John Brown is captured leading a group of abolitionists to seize arms from the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry | |
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| 1860 |
| | | Lincoln becomes the Republican presidential candidate, benefiting from a Democratic party split on the issue of slavery | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Lagos, on the coast of Nigeria, is annexed as a British colony when the royal family prove unable or unwilling to end the slave trade | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Lincoln declares in his Emancipation Proclamation that all slaves in any state opposing the Union government 'are and henceforward shall be free' | |
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| 1865 |
| | | Lincoln visits the Confederate capital at Richmond and is greeted by a jubilant crowd of freed slaves | |
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| 1865 |
| | | The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits slavery or any 'involuntary servitude' in the USA | |
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| 1873 |
| | | The British consul in Zanzibar persuades the sultan to end the island's notorious slave trade | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Slavery is finally made illegal in the Portuguese empire | |
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