Trans-Atlantic Reform

1772              Somerset decision
1770s            Quaker activism
1787              founding of Sierra Leone
                      Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
                
     Clarkson, A Summary View of the Slave Trade...

1789              Equiano, Interesting Narrative
1788              Dolbeen's Act
1792              Abolition bill
1793-97         war with France
1799-1801     war with France
1805-1807     war with France
1807              Abolition Act
1808-1815     war with France
1823              Anti-slavery Society
1828              repeal of the Test Act
1829              Catholic Emancipation
1831-2           rebellion in Jamaica
1832              The Great Reform Act
1833              Abolition of slavery
1833-1838     apprenticeship system
1837              rebellion in Lower Canada (Louis Joseph Papineau)
                      rebellion in Upper Canada (William Lyon Mackenzie)
1838              Durham mission to Canada
1838              beginnings of the Chartist movement
1846              repeal of the Corn Laws/ free trade
1848-1854     responsible government granted to Canadian colonies