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March 5
1772

Granville Sharp gets the Somerset decision, declaring that slavery cannot exist in England and slaves setting foot there are free.

March 5
1774

Equiano tries unsuccessfully to save his friend John Annis from a vengeful former master. Annis is tortured to death in the West Indies. Equiano sails for Spain and has a vision of Christ.

March 5
1775

Travels to the Mosquito Coast, Central America, with Dr. Irving to establish a plantation and to Christianize the Indian population.

March 5
1776

Returns to London. American Declaration of Independence signed.

March 5
1783

Equiano informs abolitionist Granville Sharp of Zong massacre (1781), which adds further emotional reactions to the anti-slave trade movement.

March 5
1784

Equiano sails for New York.

March 5
1785

Equiano in Philadelphia.

March 5
1786

Equiano appointed commissary to Sierra Leone recolonization expedition on the Committee for Relief of Black Poor in London.

March 5
1787

Dismissed from Sierra Leone expedition. Helps organize Sons of Africa in London. Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade formed in England.

March 5
1788

Equiano presents anti slave trade petition to England’s Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. Abolitionists petition British Parliament to end the slave trade.

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