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1945 Birthday - Nikita Mikhalkov, director, Dark Eyes, Slave of Love

1919 Birthday - Lois Collier, born in South Carolina, actress, Mary-Boston Blackie, Slave Girl

1895 Death - Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77

1893 Death - Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, dies in battle and is eaten

1885 Death - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42

1875 Birthday - Mary McLeod Bethune, South Carolina, slave/educator, Bethune-Cookman College

1873 Event - Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar

1868 Event - Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as lt governor of Louisiana

1867 Birthday - Herbert Prior, born in England, actor, Caught Short, Slave of Desire

1858 Death - Dred Scott, U.S. slave (REV-decision Supreme court), dies

1855 Event - Wisconsin Supreme Court declares U.S. Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional

1854 Event - Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by U.S. Deputy marshals in Boston

1851 Event - Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave

1850 Event - Slave trade abolished in DC, but slavery allowed to continue

1850 Event - Congress passes Fugitive Slave Law as part of Compromise of 1850

1842 Event - Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston

1842 Birthday - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter, Slave Market

1839 Event - Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad

1837 Birthday - Harriet Powers, U.S., slave/writer, Creation of Animals

1837 Death - Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies

1831 Death - Nat Turner, former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA

1831 Event - Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery

1822 Event - Denmark Vesey, leads slave rebellion in South Carolina

1822 Event - House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)

1818 Event - Netherlands and England sign treaty against illegal slave handling

1807 Event - British Parliament abolishes slave trade

1807 Event - Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808

1805 Birthday - Hiram Powers, U.S. sculptor, Greek Slave

1800 Birthday - Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion, 1831

1800 Event - Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave

1799 Event - William Clark (of Lewis and Clark) is willed the slave York

1795 Event - Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday

1795 Death - Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed

1795 Event - Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao

1795 Event - Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned

1793 Event - 1st U.S. fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves

1792 Event - Denmark abolishes slave trade

1791 Event - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman

1788 Event - English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade

1787 Event - English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes

1782 Event - Suriname forbids selling slave mothers without their babies

1770 Death - Crispus Attuks, slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre

1767 Event - Gentlemen 17 forbid private slave transport India to Cape of Good Hope

1760 Event - Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"

1753 Event - Lemuel Haynes, escapes from slave holder in Framingham Mass

1750 Event - Slave uprising on Curacao

1747 Death - Jacobus E J Capitein, Dutch slave/vicar/merchant, dies

1709 Death - Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedic poet/slave in Algeria, dies

1663 Event - 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)

1655 Birthday - Jean-Franeois Regnard, French comedy writer, Slave in Algeria

1443 Death - Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez, dies

1402 Birthday - Ferdinand, the Saint, Portuguese slave of Fez/saint

1128 Death - Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus, dies

743 Event - Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited

432 Event - St. Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave













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