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1815 500,000 square miles of Africa were
under European claims and partial control;
a million square miles in 1815
1818 Shaka of the Zulu defeated the Ndwandwe.
Beginning of the wars of wandering, named
because of the
migrations which they set in motion.
1817 - 1895 Frederick Douglass.
former slave and abolitionist, wrote of
his years as a slave in Maryland; his
escape to Massachussets in 1838: his travels
and lectures in England; his editorship
and publication of the North
Star in Rochester, New York: his civil
rights activities after the Civil War;
his work for the Freedman's bank:
his participation on the Commission to
Santo Domingo; his duties forthe Federal
Government in Washington.
The 1892 edition reported his European
and Middle Eastern journeys of 1886-1887
and his service as Minister to
Haiti.
1820 Slavery forced north of the Mason-Dixon
line.
1820
The brig Elizabeth (Mayflower of Liberia)
with the first American African colonists
(86) from America left
New York. Arriving at Sierra Leone, they
proceeded to Sherbo Islands where promises
to sell land had been
reconsidered and broken. The colonists
returned to Sierra Leone.
Mohammad Ali (Ottman viceroy to Egypt)
sent his son with Turks and Arabs to conquer
Nubia. He defeated the
Maneluk Beys at Dongola and then marched
through Ethiopia, but wos killed in 1822
just after he had founded
Khartourn.
1821 —1913
Harriet Tubman was born a slave on the
eastern shore of Maryland. In 1849 she
became a fugitive
slave and one of the most effective leaders
of the Underground Railroad. She worked
with John Brown and other
abolitionists; was a spy, gook, guide,
and nurse during the Civil War.
1832 The Afro-Americas (sic) Female Intelligence
Society Society was organized by a group
of black women in
Boston.
The second convention of blacks met in
Benezeta Hall in Philadelphia, 4 June.
They resolved to establish asociety
to purchase land in Canada for blacks obliged
to flee from the United States and to raise
money to aid the project.
The convention opposed national aid to
the American Colonization Society and urged
the abolition of slavery
in Washington, D.C.
1833 - Britain abolished Slavery
1834
- 1840 "Trekking" of
the Boers away from Cape Colony to Orange
Free State.
1837 Indian chiefs required to surrender
all slaves belonging to white persons.
Chiefs notified that slaves would
be tracked by blood hounds. Twenty dollars
per head offered for captured slaves.
1838 The Spanish slave Ship Amistad set
sail from Havana. Cuba, to the island of
Principe with thirty-eight
slaves aboard, including Clinque. an African
prince. Clinque plotted an escape and with
other slaves seized the ship.
1839 - Joseph Clingue Captain - Ship Amistad
- Demanded its return to Accra
c.
1840 Mohammed Ali's Sudan included all
the territory formerly belonging to Napata
and Meroe and from c. 1840-1880 Ethiopia
was reduced to a state of ruin and misery
by the Arab masters of the Egyptians.
1841
Livingstone went to Africa, and died there
in 1873
1843 - Sojourner Truth starts her own
campaign
1843 United States Attorney-General Hugh
Legare declared that blacks were neither
aliens nor citizens but
were somewhere in between. However, blacks
might apply for benefits under the Land
Preemption Act.
1847 George B. Vashon was the first
black admitted to the bar of the New York
Supreme Court.
Harriet Turbman escapes slavery - via
the underground railway.
All
the Spanish slave 'factories' on the coast
of Sierra Leone and Lioeria were destroyed.
1848
The president of Harvard. Edward Everell,
announced that a black applicant would
be judged only by his
qualifying examinations, and if the white
students chose to withdraw, all the income
of the college would
be devoted to the black students.
1848 The right for women to vote proposed
for the first time.
1850 Denmark ceded her Gold Coast forts,
property, and rights to England for £10,000.
1850 Underground railway fully functional
1850- 1860 Increase of illicit trade and
actual import ai ions amounted toa virtual
reopening of the slave trade.
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