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H AD 1792. Thomas Peters, a
Nigerian transported to colonial
America as a slave and a founding
father of Sierra Leone, dies in Sierra
Leone. He led former slaves from
Nova Scotia to found a new colony
in Africa after he was freed.
I AD 1807. Britain’s parliament outlaws the slave trade
in the British Empire. William
Wilberforce, a committed
Christian, works for nearly twenty
years to end the slave trade.
Slavery itself is outlawed in the
empire in 1833.
J AD 1807. The British navy
captures slave ships and frees
slaves. These “recaptives” help
populate the new colony of Sierra
Leone and its capital city of
Freetown. Some recaptives become
a new African missionary force.
AD 1750
C
AD 1760
AD 1770
AD 1780
D E
AD 1790
F
G H
William Wilberforce Argues before
British Parliment (I).
AD 1800
I
J
AD 1810
EUROPE
NORTH
AMERICA
New Orleans
New York
Lisbon
Charleston
ATLANTIC OCEAN
ARABIA
Sierra Leone
PACIFIC OCEAN
Guiana
and Surinam
SOUTH
AMERICA
AFRICA
Mogadishu
Congo
Brazil
Salvador
Benguela
Mozambique
Zanzibar
Madagascar
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Mauritius
INDIAN OCEAN
Cape Town
The East and West African Routes of the Slave Trade,
Early ad 1800s (J).