1945 Nikita Mikhalkov, director, Dark Eyes, Slave of Love
1919 Lois Collier, born in South Carolina, actress, Mary-Boston Blackie, Slave Girl
1895 Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77
1893 Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle and is eaten
1885 Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42
1875 Mary McLeod Bethune, South Carolina, slave/educator, Bethune-Cookman College
1873 Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar
1868 Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana
1867 Herbert Prior, born in England, actor, Caught Short, Slave of Desire
1858 Dred Scott, U.S. slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies
1855 Wisconsin Supreme Court declares U.S. Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
1854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by U.S. Deputy marshals in Boston
1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave
1850 Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue
1850 Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850
1842 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston
1842 Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter, Slave Market
1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
1837 Harriet Powers, U.S., slave/writer, Creation of Animals
1837 Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies
1831 Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA
1831 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1822 Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina
1822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1821 Nathan Bedford Forrest, slave trader/Confed lt-gen/KKK Grand Wizard
1818 Netherlands and England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1807 British Parliament abolishes slave trade
1807 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
1805 Hiram Powers, U.S. sculptor, Greek Slave
1800 Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion, 1831
1800 Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave
1799 William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) is willed the slave York
1795 Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday
1795 Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed
1795 Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao
1795 Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
1793 1st U.S. fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
1792 Denmark abolishes slave trade
1791 Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
1788 English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade
1787 English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
1782 Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies
1770 Crispus Attuks, slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre
1767 Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope
1760 Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"
1753 Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass
1750 Slave uprising on Curacao
1747 Jacobus E J Capitein, Dutch slave/vicar/merchant, dies
1709 Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies
1663 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)
1655 Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedy writer, Slave in Algeria
1443 Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies
1402 Ferdinand, the Saint, Portuguese slave of Fez/saint
1128 Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies
743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
432 St. Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
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