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