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Caribbean Situation
11th IOI World Conference
Bangkok, 13-19 November 2016
Triangular trade
The transatlantic slave trade, often known as the
triangular trade, connected the economies of
three continents. It is estimated that between 25 to
30 million people, men, women and children, were
deported from their homes and sold as slaves in the
different slave trading systems. In the transatlantic
slave trade alone the estimate of those deported is
believed to be approximately 17 million. These
figures exclude those who died aboard the ships
and in the course of wars and raids connected to
the trade.
Triangular trade
Atlantic Slave Trade
Forced Journey
The trade routes formed a Triangle, becoming known as
the triangular trade:
• Slaves from Africa to the Americas
• Rum, and other goods from the
Americas to Europe
• Manufactured goods from Europe
to Africa
Slave Trade Map
Important dates
IMPORTANT DATES IN THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY
1659
Queen Elizabeth I declared, "England was too pure an air for
slaves to breathe in." English law decreed "as soon as a man
puts foot on English ground, he is free,” yet slavery in British
held land in American continued for 238 years.
1774
Rhode Island became the first of the American colonies to
abolish slavery.
1807
The United States forbade the importation of new African
slaves.
1807
The British abolished the slave trade in all of their colonies.
1823
Slavery abolished in Chile.
1829
Slavery abolished in Mexico.
1848
Slavery abolished in French Territories.
1854
Slavery abolished in Peru.
1863
Slavery abolished in Dutch Territories.
1865
The fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution
declared that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,
except for punishment for crime shall exist within the United
States
1873
Slavery abolished in Puerto Rico.
1880
Slavery abolished in Cuba.
1888
Slavery abolished in Brazil.
Caribbean Independence dates
Country
Date of Independence
Previous colony of
Haiti
01 January 1804
France
Dominican Republic
27 February 1844
Haiti
Cuba
20 May 1902
Spain
Jamaica
06 August 1962
United Kingdom
Trinidad and Tobago
31 August 1962
United Kingdom
Guyana
26 May 1966
United Kingdom
Barbados
30 November 1966
United Kingdom
The Bahamas
10 July 1973
United Kingdom
Grenada
07 February 1974
United Kingdom
Suriname
25 November 1975
The Netherlands
Dominica
03 November 1978
United Kingdom
Saint Lucia
22 February 1979
United Kingdom
St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
27 October 1979
United Kingdom
Belize
21 September 1981
United Kingdom
Antigua and Barbuda
01 November 1981
United Kingdom
St. Kitts and Nevis
19 September 1983
United Kingdom
Caribbean Independence dates
St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
Belize
Antigua and Barbuda
St. Kitts and Nevis
27 October 1979
21 September
1981
01 November
1981
19 September
1983
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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