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| 1789 |
| | The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a slave captured as a child in Africa, becomes a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic | |
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| 1790 |
| | A second fleet arrives in Sydney, bringing more convicts and a regiment, the New South Wales Corps, to keep order | |
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| 1816 |
| | Robert Finley, a US anti-slavery campaigner, founds the American Colonization Society to settle freed slaves in Africa | |
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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 |
| | Mzilikazi, after a quarrel with Shaka, leads the Ndebele people to new territories west of Natal | |
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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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| 1843 |
| | The Great Migration across the north American continent to the Pacific establishes the Oregon Trail | |
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| c. 1846 |
| | The Irish, fleeing from the potato famine at home, become the main group of immigrants to the USA | |
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| 1846 |
| | Brigham Young leads the migration of Mormons west up the Missouri from Illinois | |
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