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| 1807 |
| | | Legislation abolishing the slave trade is passed in both Britain and America | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The British government uses Freetown, in Sierra Leone, as a base in the fight against the slave trade | |
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| 1813 |
| | | The Turks recapture Belgrade and sell thousands of Serb women and children into slavery | |
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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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| 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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