Ottobah Cugoano is transported to America

Britain begins to colonise Australia

Mary Prince is sold at auction

Haiti becomes first black-led republic in the world

Slave trade is abolished in the British Empire

Slavery is abolished across the British Empire

First Indians are indentured for overseas labour

Africaine brings free settlers to South Australia

The Irish Potato Famine begins

Highland crofters like the Mackay family come to Australia

Kidnapping of South Sea Islanders to work in Queensland begins

Slavery is abolished in the United States

Chinese Exclusion Act is passed in the United States

Southern and eastern Europeans begin mass migration to the United States

Indentured labour is abolished across the British Empire