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c. 700
 
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The African slave trade through the Sahara is so extensive that a new town, Zawila, is established as a trading station      
c. 850
 
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The caliphs in Baghdad begin to employ Turkish slaves, or Mamelukes, in their armies      
1446
 
    
Portugal claims ownership of the region of Guinea, subsequently the centre of their slave trade on the west African coast       
1466
 
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The Portuguese settlers on the Cape Verde islands are granted a monopoly on the new slave trade       
c. 1550
 
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Africans, bought in the Portuguese trading posts of west Africa, are shipped across the Atlantic as slaves      
1655
 
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The British, settling in Jamaica, soon turn the island into the major slave market of the West Indies   See in Google maps   
1657
 
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The Dutch in South Africa purchase slaves to do domestic and agricultural work     
1688
 
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Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko makes an early protest against the inhumanity of the African slave trade        
1700
 
     
Boston merchant Samuel Sewall publishes The Selling of Joseph, a very early anti-slavery tract        
1735
 
   
John Peter Zenger, editor of the Weekly Journal, is acquitted of libelling the governor of New York on the grounds that what he published was true